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One skilled in law or jurisprudence. [R.] De Quincey.

A pale buff or white crystalline alkaloid derived from quinoline, and used as an antipyretic in medicine.

An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.

A hundred weight; a quintal.

See Quinate. [Obsolescent]

See Quinic.

See Quinone.

See Quinoyl.

out. "The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service." De Quincey. -- To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist. -- To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the…

To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.] She lags us if we poach. De Quincey.

To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Quincey.

ers pertaining to religious belief. Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford.

he text. We ourselves are offended by the obtrusion of the new lections into the text. De Quincey.

Lawyerlike; legal. [R.] "Leguleian barbarism." De Quincey. -- n.

A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.

An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine, and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.

of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.

ome people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others. De Quincey.

A nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. Cf. Quinoline.

The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus libra in almanacs, etc. (b ) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.