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A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food. [Prov. Eng.]

tained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline. [Written also chinaldine.]

Consisting of five; arranged by fives. Boyle. Quinary system (Zoöl.), a fanciful classification based on the hypothesis that each group contains five types.

A salt of quinic acid. [Written also kinate.]

A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline. [Written also chinazol.]

a quince tree or shrub. Japan quince (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub (Cydonia, formerly Pyrus, Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament. -- Quince curculio (Zoöl.), a small gray and yellow curculio (C…

The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.

To stir; to wince. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having the form of a quincunx.

In the manner or order of a quincunx.

A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in æstivation. See Quincuncial, 2.

A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.

One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

The body or office of the quindecemviri.

n, C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid. [Written also quindekone.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid.

A fifteenth part. [Obs.]

A fifteenth. [Obs.] Prynne.

A green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone. [Written also chinhydrone.]

Quinine.