Search the Dictionary

See Quinodine.

See Quinoline.

See Quinone.

pes are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the sea…

A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.

The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.

A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.

To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.

A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.

minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.

d, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten. Milton. Cited by finger of God. De Quincey.

d duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.

e. To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

pbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

A squinting eye. Forby.

substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret.

mber (Citrullus, or Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.