a market-town of France, in the department of Morbihan, and arrondissement of L'Orient. It is situated on a peninsula, in a bay of the same name, and contains 1850 inhabitants. It is defended by the fort Penthièvre, on the same peninsula, and is remarkable for the unsuccessful attempt made in 1793, by a body of royalist emigrants, under the brave Sombreuil.

**QUICK or QUICKSET Hedge**, amongst gardeners, denotes all live hedges, of whatever sort of plants they are composed, to distinguish them from dead hedges; but in a more limited sense of the word, it is restricted to those planted with the hawthorn, under which name the young plants or sets are sold by the nursery-gardeners, who raise them for sale.