Quail is valid Scrabble Word

Is quail a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is quail valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for QUAIL in dictionary:

VERB:

to give way in fear
feel or show fear or apprehension
To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
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.
To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
draw back, as with fear or pain
shrink back with fear

NOUN:

a small short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a tiny partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage.
a small or medium-sized New World game bird, the male of which has distinctive facial markings.

small game bird of the partridge family
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).
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).
Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
small gallinaceous game birds

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to cower

Words related to QUAIL

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Words that contain QUAIL

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How to use QUAIL in a sentence

As lions in their utmost rage have recoiled before a man who has looked them steadily in the face, so did even those miscreants quail before their pure and high-minded queen.
At the same time all nature was filled with a horror which caused the most courageous hearts to quail.
When he appeared sufficiently tame, a quail or partridge, previously stripped of a few feathers so as to prevent it flying properly, was put in his way as before.
I scorned the sword of Catiline, I will not quail before yours.
My Dog Quail contains some amusing anecdotes by the late Dr.
On my trip to the grounds of the Quail Valley Land Company, some thirty miles below Riverside, two members of the club and my wife accompanied me.
In the fifteen years during which I have shot upon these grounds, I never got up more or larger bands of quail than we did that morning.
When the bird has come out it is as large as a quail, and goes about picking up its food as other birds do after they are grown.
Covies of birds, like quail, were seen here and there, along the road, and at one point a handsome green snake, a yard or more in length, glided across the way.
Shooting quail in Egyptian corn is, comparatively speaking, not much fun.

We shouted and threw clods, and kicked on the trees, and rattled things, urging the hidden quail once more to flight.
We knew that the quail would lie well here, for they hate to cross bare openings.
No one would think of hunting quail, ducks, or rabbits with a rifle, and even if you were an excellent rifle shot at a still mark you might not be able to hit moving game at all.
It is curious how the name of the common quail is disputed and varied.
He had ruled that timid, trusting girl too long and too imperiously to quail before her disembodied spirit.
Of wild fowl, duck, quail, and turkey in abundance.
Nor was the spirit of the Lady Imogene one that would easily quail.
A covey of small, brown quail broke close at hand and sailed away, skimming the top of the grass.
He took the squirrel and I gave him a couple of quail too.
In the roads there is good anchorage for shipping, opposite to Quail island, and for smaller vessels nearer the shore.
In the hurry and bustle of making the camp snug for the night, every one was busy, the sheriff in particular, in dressing his bag of quail.
Fools there are, who dare all personal physical torment, and yet shrink and quail before the thought of death for a beloved one.
The yells, with which they accompanied their onset, caused the heart of James to quail within him.
Their liberty-loving spirits and purposes, however, did not quail.
It made the stoutest hearts quail before the unjust sovereignty of the law.

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