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The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

An oily liquid substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.

A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceæ), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass.

A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia.

A nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. Cf. Quinoline.

Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolæ.

Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type. [Written also pinacoline.]

Rock-inhabiting.

Flesh-colored.

Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.

Same as Serolin (b).

Of or pertaining to the family of warblers (Sylvicolidæ). See Warbler.

The common qua(Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.

; a small house. [Obs.] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser.

s; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. By misfortune it cracked in the coling. Boyle. The mirror cracked from side to side. Tennyson.

s oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.

Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera. [U.S.]

Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds.

Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).