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▸ 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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bobwhite quail,
coturnix quail,
California quail,
plumed quail,
gamble quail,
blue quail,
sp,
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