n. [a for. word; Engl. quire], a sheet folded in a book; var stolit ór (the book) einu kverinu, Fms. viii. 402; þar er aspiciens bók í kverum (not bound), Vm. 122; bækr tuttugu, ok fimm kver at auk, Pm. 5: in mod. usage a small book, volume, Bæna-kver, a Prayer-book; Stafrofs-kver, an a b c book; Fræða-kver, Hallgríms-kver, Þorláks-kver, = the poems of Hallgrim, Thorlac; and esp. with the article Kverið = the volume containing the Catechism.