ˈwood-quest, -quist, -queest Now dial.
Also 6–7 -quyst(e, -coyst, 7 -quiste, -coist.
[f. wood n.1 + quest, quist, queest.]
= prec.
| 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. iii. xvi. 109/2 Grated bread in the broth of a woodquyste. 1580 T. Newton Approved Medicines 85 b, Y⊇ stockdooue, or Woodquist. 1582 Batman Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xii. vi. 181/1 The Stock-doue or Wood-coyst. 1623 tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. ii. xiii. 231 Ring-doues, or Wood-coysts. 1761 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 12 Dec. 2 Two Brothers being out a shooting Wood-quists. 1806 J. N. White Poems 18 The wood-quest wild. 1825 Jennings Obs. Dial. W. Eng., Wood-quist. 1877 M. Laffan Hon. Miss Ferrard II. ii. 173 The woodquests' cooing formed a melodious bass. |