Search the Dictionary

Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.

Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.

One who undertakes a quest; a seeker. [Obs.] Shak.

ifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. -- n. (Med.)

Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance. Omittance is no quittance. Shak.

Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

ith coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.

See Rattan.

Same as Rhatany.

One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.

to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to…

A choking coil.

Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

Rectangular. [R.]

Rectangular. Hutton.

Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly (r, adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.

The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.

A free city of the former German empire.