QUAR'REL, n. [L. queror, to complain, that is, to cry out with a loud voice. Hence we see the primary sense is the same as brawl. The L. queror coincides in elements with to call, to bawl, to shout, and gearan, a complaint. Heb.

1. A brawl; a petty fight or scuffle; from its noise and uproar. – Shak.
2. A dispute; a contest. On open seas their quarrels they debate. – Dryden.
3. A breach of friendship or concord; open variance between parties. – Hammond.
4. Cause of dispute. The king's quarrel is honorable. – Shak.
5. Something that gives a right to mischief, reprisal or action. He thought he had a good quarrel to attack him. [Not used.] – Holingshead.
6. Objection; ill will, or reason to complain; ground of objection or dispute. Herodias had a quarrel against him. – Mark vi.
7. Something peevish, malicious, or disposed to make trouble. [Not used.] – Shak.

1. An arrow with a square head. [Not used unless in poetry.] – Camden.
2. A pane of glass; a square. [See Quarry and Square.]

1. To dispute violently or with loud and angry words; to wrangle; to scold. How odious to see husband and wife quarrel!
2. To fight; to scuffle; to contend; to squabble; used of two persons or of a small number. It is never used of armies and navies in combat. Children and servants often quarrel about trifles. Tavern-hunters sometimes quarrel over their cups.
3. To fall into variance. Our people quarrel with obedience. – Shak.
4. To find fault; to cavil. I will not quarrel with a slight mistake. – Roscommon. Men at enmity with their God, quarreling with his attributes – quarreling with the Being that made them, and who is constantly doing them good. – Eliph. Steele.
5. To disagree; to be at variance; not to be in accordance in form or essence. Some things arise of strange and quarr'ling kind, / The forepart lion, and a snake behind. – Cowley.

1. To quarrel with. – B. Jonson.
2. To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.

1. An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   To shoot with arrows and quarrel. Sir J. Mandeville.

   Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels. Sir W. Scott.

2. A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.
   
   

   I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant. Lev. xxvi. 25.

   On open seas their quarrels they debate. Dryden.

3. To violate concord or agreement] to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
   
   

   Our people quarrel with obedience. Shak.

   But some defect in her
   Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed. Shak.

4. To quarrel with.
   
   
   [R.] "I had quarelled my brother purposely." B. Jonson.
5. One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.
   
   
   Shak.
6. Any small square or quadrangular member
   
   
   ; as: (a)
7. Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.
   
   

   Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him. Mark vi. 19.

   No man hath any quarrel to me. Shak.

   He thought he had a good quarrel to attack him. Holinshed.

8. To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
   
   

   Beasts called sociable quarrel in hunger and lust. Sir W. Temple.

9. To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.
10. A glazier's diamond.
    
    
    Simmonds.
11. Earnest desire or longing.
    
    
    [Obs.] Holland.

    To pick a quarrel. See under Pick, v. t.

    Syn. -- Brawl; broil; squabble; affray; feud; tumult; contest; dispute; altercation; contention; wrangle.

12. To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
    
    

    I will not quarrel with a slight mistake. Roscommon.

13. A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.