Wood-quest, -quist, -queest

Now dial. Also 6–7 -quyst(e, -coyst, 7 -quiste, -coist. [f. WOOD sb.¹ + quest, quist, QUEEST.] = prec.

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1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., III. xvi. 109/2. Grated bread in the broth of a woodquyste.

2

1580. T. Newton, Approved Medicines, 85 b. Y^e stockdooue, or Woodquist.

3

1582. Batman, Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XII. vi. 181/1. The Stock-doue or Wood-coyst.

4

1623. trans. Favine’s Theat. Hon., II. xiii. 231. Ring-doues, or Wood-coysts.

5

1761. Jackson’s Oxf. Jrnl., 12 Dec., 2. Two Brothers being out a shooting Wood-quists.

6

1803. J. N. White, Poems (1806), 18.

	The wood-quest wild, and gentle dove,
	No longer bill—no longer coo;
	Nor swell their little souls to love;
	They cease to love—they cease to woo.

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1825. Jennings, Obs. Dial. W. Eng., Wood-quist.

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1877. [May Laffan], Honourable Miss Ferrard, II. ii. 173. The woodquests’ cooing formed a melodious bass.

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