quat

1. (transitive, obsolete) To satiate.Examples: "1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28, Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ſtart me, that I may come the ſooner to quatting——Huſh ! here′s Siſter ; what the deuce brought her !"obsoletetransitive

2. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To relinquish, forsake, give up.Examples: "Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically."; "'Mang mis'ry's posts, whar I did sit, My tongue took sic a faltrin' fit, I thought the wee remains o' wit I had, was quat me"; "They seem to our ears indeed to have "quat their roaring play.""Scotlanddialectaltransitive

3. (Wales and Southwest England, dialectal, intransitive) To squat or crouch down.Examples: "Tho' B-lt-n, quatted in the hall, Her jolly r-mpfs display'd, The size of it amaz'd them all, and Hector quite dismay'd."; "This cows' courant so excited the tinners' curiosity that they went up the hill till they saw the two men wrestling, with the women looking on; then they quatted (stooped) down in a brake of furze to watch the play without being seen."; "Tarka quatted on the ledge ; he knew that Deadlock would follow hiin wherever he swam in water."dialectalintransitive

1. (Scotland, dialectal, with "of") Free; no longer involved with; quit.Examples: "My word, I gie him nae encouragement ! I canna bide the sicht o' him, and wad gie the best gown I hae to be quat o' him.""; "There it is, sir—Im blythe to be quat of it; pitch it from ye furder than I can see."; "HECH me, but I'm weary, I'm heart-sick and sad ; O' my kinsfolk I've got quite a wamefu', I wush I was quat o' the d — nable squad — Forgi'e me for sweerin' sae shamefu'."Scotlanddialectalnot-comparable

1. (chemistry) A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.Examples: "“Because quats are positively charged, and skin proteins have a slightly negative charge, quats like to attach themselves to skin,” said Greg Nole, a manager at Unilever, the parent company of Vaseline and Dove."