(kwy-EET-uhs), noun
Something that ends or settles a situation.
“For who would bare the whips and scorns of time, / Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, / The pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay, / The insolence of office, and the spurns / That patient merit of th’unworthy takes, / When he himself might his QUIETUS make / With a bare bodkin?” – William Shakespeare