Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Q - Page 9
Quindecagon (n.) (Geom.) A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.
Quindecemvirs (n. pl. ) of Quindecemvir.
Quindecemviri (n. pl. ) of Quindecemvir.
Quindecemvir (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.
Quindecemvirate (n.) The body or office of the quindecemviri.
Quindecone (n.) (Chem.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid. [Written also quindekone.]
Quindecylic (n.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid.
Quindem (n.) A fifteenth part. [Obs.]
Quindism (n.) A fifteenth. [Obs.] -- Prynne.
Quinhydrone (n.) (Chem.) 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.]
Compare: Quinine
Quinine (n.) (Chem.) 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. [Written also chinine.]
Quinia (n.) [NL.] (Chem.) Quinine.
Quinible (n.) (Mus.) An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals. [Obs.] "He sang . . . a loud quynyble." -- Chaucer.
Quinic (a.) (Chem.) 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. [Written also chinic, kinic.]
Quinicine (n.) (Chem.) An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
Quinidine (n.) (Chem.) 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. [Written also chinidine.]
Quinidine (n.) Cardiac drug (trade names Quinidex and Quinora) used to treat certain heart arrhythmias [syn: quinidine, Quinidex, Quinora].
Quinine (n.) (Chem.) 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. [Written also chinine.]
Quinine (n.) A bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy.
Quininic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine. Quininism
Quininism (n.) Alt. of Quinism.
Quinism (n.) (Med.) See Cinchonism.
Quinizarin () (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially. It is isomeric with alizarin.
Quinizine (n.) (Chem.) Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics.
Quinnat
(n.)
(Zool.) The
Quinoa
(n.) The
seeds of a kind of goosewort ({Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and
Quinogen (n.) (Chem.) A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
Quinoidine (n.) (Med. Chem.) A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids. [Written also chinoidine.]
Quinoline (n.) (Chem.) A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type. [Written also chinoline.]
Quinologist (n.) One who is versed in quinology.
Quinology (n.) The science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.
Quinone (n.) (Chem.) A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. [Written also chinone, kinone.]
Quinone (n.) Any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes [syn: quinone, benzoquinone].
Quinovic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark. [Written also chinovic, and kinovic.]
Quinovin (n.) (Chem.) An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova. [Written also chinovin, and kinovin.]
Quinoxaline (n.) (Chem.) Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous bases obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones. [Written also chinoxaline.]
Quinoxyl (n.) (Chem.) The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid.
Quinoyl (n.) (Chem.) A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl. [Written also kinoyl.]
Quinquagesima (a.) Fiftieth.
Quinquagesima Sunday, The Sunday which is the fiftieth day before Easter, both days being included in the reckoning; -- called also Shrove Sunday.
Quinquagesima (n.) The Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent) [syn: Quinquagesima, Quinquagesima Sunday].
Quinquangular (a.) Having five angles or corners.
Quinquarticular (a.) (Theol.) Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists. [Obs.] -- Bp. Sanderson.
Quinque- () A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.
Quinqueangled (a.) Having five angles; quinquangular. Quinquedentate
Quinquedentate (a.) Alt. of Quinquedentated.
Quinquedentated (a.) Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.
Quinquefarious (a.) (Bot.) Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous. -- Gray.
Quinquefid (a.) (Bot.) Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla. Quinquefoliate
Quinquefoliate (a.) Alt. of Quinquefoliated.
Quinquefoliated (a.) (Bot.) Having five leaves or leaflets. -- Gray.
Quinque foliolate (a.) (Bot.) Having five leaflets. -- Gray.
Quinquefoliate (a.) (Of a leaf shape) Having five leaflets.
Quinqueliteral (a.) Consisting of five letters. Quinquelobate
Quinquelobate (a.) Alt. of Quinquelobared.
Quinquelobared (a.) Cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.
Quinquelobed (a.) Same as Quinquelobate.
Quinquelocular (a.) Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp.
Quinquenerved (a.) (Bot.) Having five nerves; -- said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.
Quinquennalia (n. pl.) (Rom. Antiq.) Public games celebrated every five years.
Quinquennial (a.) Occurring once in five years, or at the end of every five years; also, lasting five years. A quinquennial event.
Quinquennium (n.) Space of five years.
Quinquennium (n.) A period of five years.
Quinquepartite (a.) Consisting of five parts.
Quinquepartite (a.) (Bot.) Divided into five parts almost to the base.
Quinquereme (n.) A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.
Quinquesyllable (n.) A word of five syllables. Quinquevalve
Quinquevalve (a.) Alt. of Quinquevalvular
Quinquevalvular (a.) (Bot.) Having five valves, as a pericarp.
Quinquevirs (n. pl. ) of Quinquevir.
Quinqueviri (n. pl. ) of Quinquevir.
Quinquevir (n.) (Bot. Antiq.) One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.
Quinquina (n.) Peruvian bark.
Quinquivalent (a.) (Chem.) Same as Pentavalent.
Quinsy (n.) (Med.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.
Quinsy (n.) A painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis [syn: quinsy, peritonsillar abscess].
Quint (n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
Quint (n.) (Mus.) The interval of a fifth.
Quint (n.) One of a set of quintuplets. [informal]
Quint (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe].
Quint (n.) One of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy [syn: quintuplet, quint, quin].
Quintain (n.) An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel. [Written also quintin.].
Note: A common form in the Middle Ages was an upright post, on the top of which turned a crosspiece, having on one end a broad board, and on the other a sand bag. The endeavor was to strike the board with the lance while riding under, and get away without being hit by the sand bag. "But a quintain, a mere lifeless block." -- Shak.
Quintal (n.) A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental.
Quintal (n.) A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.
Quintal (n.) A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms.
Quintal (n.) A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds [syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal].
Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
Quintain (n.) An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel. [Written also quintin.]
Note: A common form in the Middle Ages was an upright post, on the top of which turned a crosspiece, having on one end a broad board, and on the other a sand bag. The endeavor was to strike the board with the lance while riding under, and get away without being hit by the sand bag. "But a quintain, a mere lifeless block." -- Shak.
Quintel (n.) See Quintain.
Quintessence (v. t.) To distil or extract as a
quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. [R.] -- Stirling. "Truth
quintessenced and raised to the highest power." -- J. A.
Symonds.
Quintessence (v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. [R.] -- Stirling. "Truth quintessenced and raised to the highest power." -- J. A. Symonds.
Quintessence (n.) The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. [Obs.]
Note: The ancient Greeks recognized four elements, fire, air, water, and earth. The Pythagoreans added a fifth and called it nether, the fifth essence, which they said flew upward at creation and out of it the stars were made. The alchemists sometimes considered alcohol, or the ferment oils, as the fifth essence.
Quintessence (n.) Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep. -- Milton.
Quintessence (n.) The most characteristic form or most perfect example of some type of object.
Quintessence (n.) The fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies [syn: quintessence, ether].
Quintessence (n.) The purest and most concentrated essence of something.
Quintessence (n.) The most typical example or representative of a type.
Quintessential (a.) Of the nature of a quintessence; purest ; most characteristic.
"Quintessential extract of mediocrity." -- G. Eliot.
Quintessential (a.) Representing the perfect example of a class or quality.
Quintet (n.) Alt. of Quintette.
Quintette (n.) (Mus.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.
Quintet (n.) A musical composition for five performers [syn: quintet, quintette].
Quintet (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe].
Quintet (n.) Five performers or singers who perform together [syn: quintet, quintette].
Quintet (n.) A set of five similar things considered as a unit [syn: quintet, quintette, quintuplet, quintuple].
Quintet (n.) Five people considered as a unit [syn: quintet, quintette, fivesome].
Quintic (a.) Of the fifth degree or order.
Quintic (n.) (Alg.) A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.
Quintile (n.) (Astron.) The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72[deg]. -- Hutton.
Quintilllion (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Quintain (n.) An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel. [Written also quintin.]
Note: A common form in the Middle Ages was an upright post, on the top of which turned a crosspiece, having on one end a broad board, and on the other a sand bag. The endeavor was to strike the board with the lance while riding under, and get away without being hit by the sand bag. "But a quintain, a mere lifeless block." -- Shak.
Quintin (n.) See Quintain.
Quintine (n.) (Bot.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.
Quintole (n.) (Mus.) A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.
Quintuple (a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
Quintuple time (Mus.), A time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.
Quintupled (imp. & p. p.) of Quintuple.
Quintupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quintuple.
Quintuple (v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Quintuple (a.) Having five units or components [syn: quintuple, fivefold, five-fold].
Quintuple (n.) A set of five similar things considered as a unit [syn: quintet, quintette, quintuplet, quintuple].
Quintuple (v.) Increase fivefold; "The population of China quintupled".
Quittuple-nerved (a.) Alt. of Quintuple-ribbed.
Quintuple-ribbed (a.) (Bot.) The same as Quinquenerved.
Quinzaine (n.) The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning. [Written also quinzain.]
Quinze (n.) A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.
Quip (n.) A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.
Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. -- Milton.
He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. -- Tennyson.
Quip (n.) A short humorous or witty comment or observation, usually spontaneously formed in response to a prior comment.
Quipped (imp. & p. p.) of Quip.
Quipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quip.
Quip (v. t.) To taunt; to treat with quips.
The more he laughs, and does her closely quip. -- Spenser.