Quarrel | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Quar'rel, n.

noun

(kwŏr'rel), n. [O. Eng. querēle, q. v., O. Fr. querelle, N. Fr. querelle, Pr. querela, querella, Sp. querella, queja, Pg. & It. querela, from Lat. querela, querella, a complaint, from queri, to complain.] 1. An angry contest; a brawl; a falling out; an altercation; an affray. On open seas their quarrels they debate. Dryden. 2. Cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation; ground of hostility. [Obs.] No man hath any quarrel to me. Shak. He thought he had a good quarrel to attack him. Holinshed. 3. Earnest desire or longing. [Obs.] Holland. To pick a quarrel, to seek willfully occasion of contention; to force an affray or contest. “Now, you pick a quarrel.” Shak. Syn.—Brawl; broil; squabble; affray; feud; tumult; contest; dispute; altercation; contention.

Quar'rel, n.

noun

n. [See CARREL.] 1. An arrow with a square head for a cross-bow. [Obs.] “Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels.” W. Scott.

A diamond-shaped pane of glass, or a square pane placed diagonally. See QUARRY and SQUARE.
A glazier’s diamond. Simmonds.

Quar'rel, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. QUARRELED, or QUARRELLED; p. pr. & vb. n. QUARRELING, or QUARRELLING.] [O. Fr. quereler, N. Fr. quereller, Pr. querellar, Sp. querellar, quejar, Pg. querelar, It. querelare. See the noun.]

Sense 1. To dispute violently, or with loud and angry words; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to fall out; —used of two persons, or of a small number.

Our people quarrel with obedience. Shak.

Sense 2. To find fault; to cavil.

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake. Roscommon.

Sense 3. To disagree; to be at variance; not to be in accordance.

Some things arise of strange and quarreling kind. The fore part lion, and a snake behind. Cowley.

Quar'rel, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To quarrel with. B. Jonson. They quarrel thee, and would give over The bargain made to serve thee. Herbert. 2. To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.