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quist

Queest \Queest\, n. [Cf. Icel. kvisa a kind of bird, kvistr a branch of a tree, and E. cushat.] (Zo["o]l.) The European ringdove ( Columba palumbus); the cushat. [Written also quist, queeze, quice, queece.] See Ringdove.

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quist

n. (context Midlands English) the woodpigeon, ''Columba palumbus''.

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Quist

Quist is a surname of Scandinavian origin. People with the surname include:

  • Adrian Quist (1913–1991), Australian tennis player
  • Anne Quist (born 1957), Dutch rower
  • Janet Quist (born 1955), American model and actress
  • Johan Martin Quist, (1755–1818), Danish Golden Age architect
  • Karl Quist (1875–1957), Australian cricketer
  • Leen Quist 1942–2014), Dutch ceramist
  • Per-Ola Quist (born 1961), Swedish former Olympic swimmer
  • Rasmus Quist Hansen (born 1980), Danish rower and Olympic athlete

Usage examples of "quist".

Belatedly, it struck Quist as bad for her image not to know herself, but she could hardly recall the words once spoken.

Cyclops were restricted to sound without vision, Quist forced herself to maintain calm.

He had expected something altogether different, almost certainly for Quist herself.

Alura Quist, could she not have pulled strings to have him treated on some more advanced planet?

I told Quist to get her boyfriend out of there tomorrow morning at the latest, and bring him to me.

Alura Quist had given up listening to the actual words a quarter-hour earlier, and was lost in a maze of private contemplation.

And for the past several minutes, during the speech by the senior Earth delegate, he had been muttering insulting remarks in his own mother-tongue, a divergent offshoot of the common Galactic language which was still sufficiently close for Quist to have flinched at what she half-understood.

Alura Quist to the Commandant, Corps Galactica Repair, Refit and Recreation Base, Cyclops.

Langenschmidt reflected, that Quist had sent them a fool to supervise the evacuation.

What I do plan to do, incidentally, is slip away under the pretext of being called to a top-level conference on the redeployment of personnel from here and the selection of a substitute base-location, and by the time they finish investigating the circumstances I should have the rope braided to hang Quist by the neck.

Langenschmidt agreed blandly, forbearing to mention that if all went well Quist would be getting a reward of her own quite shortly.

Or you may equally have wondered what possessed Alura Quist to issue her ultimatum.

Have you and Quist discussed our project in any detail since coming aboard?

After that, you and Quist stay in this cabin with the door locked until the ship has set down.

Egavine and Quist standing near a rusty bench in the compartment, of Graylock half into a salvage suit, Dasinger on the floor.