Word Meanings - QUAS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of beer. Same as Quass.

Related words: (words related to QUAS)

• QUASSATION
  The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken. Gayton.
• QUASSIA
  The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeæ, as Quassia amara, Picræna excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
• QUASSIN
  The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white
• QUASS
  A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley
• OQUASSA
  A small, handsome trout , found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.
• CONQUASSATE
  To shake; to agitate. Harvey. -- Con`quas*sa"tion, n.