Usually means: Small, ground-dwelling bird species.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word quail:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. quail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quail: Merriam-Webster
  3. quail, quail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quail, quail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quail: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quail: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quail, quail: Wordnik
  8. quail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Quail, quail: Wiktionary
  10. quail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quail: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Quail, quail: Dictionary.com
  14. quail (n.), quail (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Quail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quail: Rhymezone
  20. quail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Quail: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. quail: FreeDictionary.org
  24. quail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. quail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. quail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. quail: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. quail: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Quail: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).
verb:  (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
verb:  (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
noun:  Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
noun:  (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
noun:  (obsolete) A prostitute.
verb:  (obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.
noun:  A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

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