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Quincewort
n.
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The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.
Quinch
v. i.
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To stir; to wince.
Quincuncial
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Having the form of a quincunx.
Quincuncial
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Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial aestivation.
Quincuncially
adv.
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In the manner or order of a quincunx.
Quincunx
n.
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An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.
Quincunx
n.
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The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150¡.
Quincunx
n.
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A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.
Quindecagon
n.
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A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.
Quindecemvirs
pl.
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of Quindecemvir
Quindecemviri
pl.
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of Quindecemvir
Quindecemvir
n.
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One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.
Quindecemvirate
n.
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The body or office of the quindecemviri.
Quindecone
n.
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An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid.
Quindecylic
n.
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Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid.
Quindem
n.
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A fifteenth part.
Quindism
n.
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A fifteenth.
Quinhydrone
n.
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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.
Quinia
n.
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Quinine.
Quinible
n.
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An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.
Quinic
a.
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Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
Quinicine
n.
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An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
Quinidine
n.
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An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.
Quinine
n.
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An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.
Quininic
a.
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Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
Quininism
n.
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Alt. of Quinism
Quinism
n.
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See Cinchonism.
Quinizarin
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A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially. It is isomeric with alizarin.
Quinizine
n.
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any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics.
Quinnat
n.
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The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.