rare. [f. QUELL v.1] Slaying, slaughter; power or means to quell.
c. 1420. Anturs of Arth., 49 (Douce MS.). Withe gret questes and quelles Bothe in frethes and felles.
1543. Grafton, Contn. Harding, 518. Through al the tyme of hys ysurped reygne neuer ceased theyre quel, murder, death & slaughter.
1605. Shaks., Macb., I. vii. 72. His spungie Officers … shall beare the guilt Of our great quell.
1818. Keats, Endym., II. 537. Awfully he stands, A sovereign quell is in his waving hands.
