quail to faint, to sink into dejection:
“my false spirits Quail,”
CYMBELINE, v. 5. 149
;
“their quailing breasts,”
3 HENRY VI., ii. 3. 54.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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