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Quinaldine
n.
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A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor, C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline.
Quinary
a.
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Consisting of five; arranged by fives.
Quiname
a.
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Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.
Quinate
n.
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A salt of quinic acid.
Quinazol
n.
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A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline.
Quince
n.
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The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.
Quince
n.
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a quince tree or shrub.
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.