These are the meanings of the letters CALIFIQU when you unscramble them.
- Aulic (a.)
Pertaining to a royal court.
- Aulic (n.)
The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).
- Calif (n.)
Alt. of Califate
- Cilia (n. pl.)
Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.
- Cilia (n. pl.)
Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.
- Cilia (n. pl.)
Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.
- Cilia (n. pl.)
The eyelashes.
- Iliac (a.)
Pertaining to ancient Ilium, or Troy.
- Iliac (a.)
Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery.
- Iliac (a.)
See Ileac, 1.
- Quail (n.)
A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
- Quail (n.)
Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).
- Quail (n.)
Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
- Quail (n.)
Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
- Quail (v. i.)
To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
- Quail (v. i.)
To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
- Quail (v. i.)
To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
- Quail (v. t.)
To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.