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Syn. -- Disputable; debatable; uncertain; doubtful; problematical; suspicious.

Ques"tion*a*ble*ness, n. The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.

Ques"tion*a*bly, adv. In a questionable manner.

Ques"tion*a*ry (?), a. Inquiring; asking questions; testing. "Questionary epistles." Pope.

Ques"tion*a*ry, n. One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.

Ques"tion*er (?), n. One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson.

Ques"tion*ist, n. 1. A questioner; an inquirer. [Obs.]

2. (Eng. Univ.) A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination.

Ques"tion*less, a. Unquestioning; incurious. [R.]

Ques"tion*less, adv. Beyond a question or doubt; doubtless; certainly.[R.] South.

What it was in the apostles' time, that, questionless, it must be still.

Milton.

Quest"man (?), n.; pl. Questmen (&?;). One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures. Specifically: (a) A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman. Blount. [Obs.] (b) A collector of parish rents. Blount. [Obs.]

Quest"mon`ger (?), n. One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ques"tor (?), n. [L. quaestor, contr. fr. quaesitor, fr. quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, ask: cf. F. questeur.] (Rom. Antiq.) An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state. [Written also quÊstor.]

At an early period there were also public accusers styled questors, but the office was soon abolished.

Ques"tor*ship, n. The office, or the term of office, of a questor.

Quest"rist (?), n. [See Quest.] A seeker; a pursuer. [Obs.] "Hot questrists after him." Shak.

Ques"tu*a*ry (?), a. [L. quaestuarius, from quaestus gain, profit, quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, earn.] Studious of profit. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Ques"tu*a*ry, n. One employed to collect profits. [R.] "The pope's questuaries." Jer. Taylor.

Quet (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

Queue (?), n. [F. See Cue.] (a) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail. (b) A line of persons waiting anywhere.

Queue, v. t. To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

Quey (?), n. [Cf. Dan. qvie.] A heifer. [Scot.]

Quib (?), n. [Cf. Quip.] A quip; a gibe.

Quib"ble (?), n. [Probably fr. quib, quip, but influenced by quillet, or quiddity.] 1. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

Quibbles have no place in the search after truth.