Search the Dictionary

s I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. Evelyn. Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. Dickens.

mitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.

The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.

terator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.

. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.

of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery. De Quincey.

; a state of being fixed or immovable. Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. De Quincey.

The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is 79º. Geocentric longitude (Astron.), the longitude of a heavenly body as seen from the earth. -- Helio…

usiness in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none. De Quincey.

n and moon. Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and mont…

nds, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).

aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline.

tation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.

A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.

The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to fiv…

ade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey.

A quince.

e used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.