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Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening, scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.

A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.

The act or process of making or of becoming quick.

chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. [Written also chinine.]

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.

See Cinchonism.

The state of being rainy.

Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.

Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. -- Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.

in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.

The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically:

Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).

[Obs.] Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk. Holland.

With repening or murmuring.

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.

Straight; direct.

In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.

Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse;

The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing.

In a running manner.