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An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.

The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace.

A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.

The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).

op; culture; as, land is good tilth. The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey.

ing to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular. De Quincey.

condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated, as in talipes equinus. See Talipes.

Hawk moth. -- Tomato worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Macrosila, quinquemaculata) which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also potato worm.

a peculiarly agreeable smell, and is employed in the scenting of snuff. Called also tiononquin bean. [Written also tonca bean, tonga bean.]

Inflammation of the tonsil; quinsy. [Written also, and more usually, tonsillitis.]

elicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.

influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner. De Quincey.

The shaft of a cart. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey.

il; the condition of the country is tranquil. A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow. De Quincey.

ina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers. De Quincey.

of a work. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey.

ap; to trapan. Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. De Quincey.

ace; trifling; vulgar. As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. De Quincey.

c year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.

uff up. To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought. De Quincey.