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Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line.

Towards the equinox.

The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and September 22. See Autumnal equinox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox. Longfellow.

Equal as to number. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

e; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. Johnson. Harlequin bat (Zoöl.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus), curiously variegated with white spots. -- Harlequin beetle (Zoöl.), a very large South American beetle (Acrocinus longimanus)…

A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. Macaulay.

A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene.

To defile; to pollute; to contaminate; to befoul. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A defiling; pollution; stain. [Obs.] Bacon.

Coming between the equinoxes. Summer and winter I have called interequinoctial intervals. F. Balfour.

A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance,. It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite.

The searching of a ship for unentered goods. [Eng.] [Written also jerguer.]

A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.

An artist's model of wood or other material.

A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid.

A hypothetical nitro derivative of quinol or hydroquinone, not known in the free state, but forming a well defined series of derivatives.

Hydroxy quinoline; a phenol derivative of quinoline, -- called also carbostyril.

An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. [Written also palankeen.]

A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade. The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. Dryden.

A lampoon or satirical writing. Macaulay.