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The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer.

intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90º from the former, and is called the solstitial colure. Thrice the equinoctial line He circled; four times c…

See Quinidine.

of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation. Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people. Swift.

To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

wthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

accident; something inopportune or embarassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. De Quincey.

, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.

articular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. John Quincy.

gem, by stratagem. Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quinsey.

The exact opposite. The German prose offers the counterpole to the French style. De Quincey.

d the crown of martyrdem. Prescott. Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and silitude. De Quincey.

The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as. the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant. Shelton. Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold. -- Cold cream, an ointment ma…

s, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).

An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.

towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. De Quincey.

Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.

all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. De Quincey.

ude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. De Quincey. The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. Milton.

One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.