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- English Word Quilting Definition The material used for making quilts.
- English Word Quilting Definition A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.
- English Word Quin Definition A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.
- English Word Quinaldine Definition 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.
- English Word Quiname Definition Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.
- English Word Quinary Definition Consisting of five; arranged by fives.
- English Word Quinate Definition A salt of quinic acid.
- English Word Quinazol Definition A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline.
- English Word Quince Definition 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.
- English Word Quince Definition a quince tree or shrub.
- English Word Quincewort Definition The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.
- English Word Quinch Definition To stir; to wince.
- English Word Quincuncial Definition Having the form of a quincunx.
- English Word Quincuncial Definition 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.
- English Word Quincuncially Definition In the manner or order of a quincunx.
- English Word Quincunx Definition 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.
- English Word Quincunx Definition The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150¡.
- English Word Quincunx Definition A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.
- English Word Quindecagon Definition A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.
- English Word Quindecemvir Definition One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.
- English Word Quindecemvirate Definition The body or office of the quindecemviri.
- English Word Quindecemviri Definition of Quindecemvir
- English Word Quindecemvirs Definition of Quindecemvir
- English Word Quindecone Definition An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid.
- English Word Quindecylic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid.
- English Word Quindem Definition A fifteenth part.
- English Word Quindism Definition A fifteenth.
- English Word Quinhydrone Definition 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.
- English Word Quinia Definition Quinine.
- English Word Quinible Definition An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.