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One who, or that which, quenches. Hammond.

Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury. "Once kindled, quenchless evermore." Byron.

A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.

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

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

A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.

-tree bark, horse- chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.

A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.

The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.

A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.

A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

A complainant; a plaintiff.

Complaining; querulous; apt to complain. -- Quer`i*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Quer`i*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.

A complaint or complaining. [Obs.] E. Hall.

One who inquires, or asks questions. Swift.

To stifle or choke. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope. [Local, U.S.]

and; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills. Shak. They made him at the querne grind. Chaucer.

The inner or body garments taken together. See Cuerpo. Dryden.

A teal.