AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
quinicine: an uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
quinidine: 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: 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: pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
quinizarin: a yellow crystalline substance produced artificially. it is isomeric with alizarin.
quinizine: any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics.
quinnat: the california salmon (oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and sacramento salmon. it is of great commercial importance.
quinoa: the seeds of a kind of goosewort (chenopodium quinoa), used in chili and peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.
quinoidine: a brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. it consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.
quinoline: 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.
quinology: the science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.
quinone: 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.
quinovic: pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.
quinovin: an amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. called also quinova bitter, and quinova.
quinoxaline: any one of a series of complex nitrogenous bases obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones.
quinoyl: a radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl.
quinquarticular: relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between arminians and calvinists.
quinque-: a combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.
quinquedentated: five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.
quinquefid: sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.
quinquelobared: cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.
quinquelocular: having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp.
quinquenerved: having five nerves; -- said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.
quinquennial: occurring once in five years, or at the end of every five years; also, lasting five years. a quinquennial event.
quinquereme: a galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an athenian quinquereme.
quinsy: 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.
quint: a set or sequence of five, as in piquet.-the interval of a fifth.
quintal: a hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used.  cf. cental.-a metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.
quintan: occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.-an intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
quintessence: the fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. see ferment oils, under ferment.-hence: an extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.-to distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
quintette: a composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.
quintic: of the fifth degree or order.-a quantic of the fifth degree. see quantic.
quintile: the aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72¡.
quintilllion: 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.
quintine: the embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument.  cf. quartine, and tercine.
quintole: a group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.
quintuple: multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.-to make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
quinzaine: the fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning.
quip: a smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.-to taunt; to treat with quips.-to scoff; to use taunts.
quipu: a contrivance employed by the ancient peruvians, mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. it was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events.
quirboilly: leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.
quire: see choir.-to sing in concert.-a collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
quirk: a sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.-a fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.-a smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.-an irregular air; as, light quirks of music.-a piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.-a small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.
quit: any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical america. see banana quit, under banana, and guitguit.-released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.-of quit-to set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.-to release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.-to discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.-to meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.-to carry through; to go through to the end.-to have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.-to away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
quitch: same as quitch grass.-figuratively: a vice; a taint; an evil.
quitch grass: a perennial grass (agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. see illustration in appendix.
quitclaim: a release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself.-to release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.
quite: see quit.-completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.-to a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.
quitrent: a rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.
quittance: discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.-recompense; return; repayment.-to repay; to requite.
quittor: a chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
quiver: nimble; active.-to shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.-the act or state of quivering; a tremor.-a case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
quivered: of quiver-furnished with, or carrying, a quiver.-sheathed, as in a quiver.
quixotic: like don quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded.
quixotism: that form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of don quixote in knight-errantry.
quiz: a riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.-one who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.-an odd or absurd fellow.-an exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.-to puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.-to peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.-to instruct in or by a quiz. see quiz, n., 4.-to conduct a quiz. see quiz, n., 4.
quizzical: relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
quo warranto: a writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain powers.
quod: a quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison.-quoth; said. see quoth.
quoddies: herring taken and cured or smoked near quoddy head, maine, or near the entrance of passamaquoddy ray.
quodlibet: a nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point.-a medley improvised by several performers.
quoin: originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.-a wedgelike piece of stone, wood metal, or other material, used for various purposes-to support and steady a stone.-to support the breech of a cannon.-to wedge or lock up a form within a chase.-to prevent casks from rolling.
quoit: a flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.-a game played with quoits.-the discus of the ancients. see discus.-a cromlech.-to throw quoits; to play at quoits.-to throw; to pitch.
quoll: a marsupial of australia (dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.
quondam: having been formerly; former; sometime.-a person dismissed or ejected from a position.
quorum: such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the house of representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.
quotable: capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.
quotation: the act of quoting or citing.-that which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.-the naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.-quota; share.-a piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
quote: to cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from homer.-to cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote shakespeare.-to name the current price of.-to notice; to observe; to examine.-to set down, as in writing.-a note upon an author.
quoth: said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth i. quoth he.
quotidian: occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.-anything returning daily; especially (med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.
quotient: the number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.-the result of any process inverse to multiplication. see the note under multiplication.
r: r, the eighteenth letter of the english alphabet, is a vocal consonant.  it is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. see guide to pronunciation, // 178, 179, and 250-254.
ra-: a prefix, from the latin re and ad combined, coming to us through the french and italian. see re-, and ad-.
rabato: a kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.
rabbet: to cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.-to unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.-a longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.-same as rabbet joint, below.
rabbi: master; lord; teacher; -- a jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.
rabbinic: alt. of rabbinical-the language or dialect of the rabbins; the later hebrew.
rabbinical: of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins.
rabbinism: a rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins.-the teachings and traditions of the rabbins.
rabbinist: one among the jews who adhered to the talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the karaites, who rejected the traditions.
rabbit: any of the smaller species of the genus lepus, especially the common european species (lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. it is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of australia and new zealand.
rabbitry: a place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.
rabble: an iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.-to stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.-to speak in a confused manner.-a tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.-a confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.-of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.-to insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.-to utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.-to rumple; to crumple.
rabble-rout: a tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.
rabdology: the method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of napier's bones. see napier's bones.
rabid: furious; raging; extremely violent.-extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.-affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.-of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus.
raca: a term of reproach used by the jews of our savior's time, meaning "worthless."
racahout: a preparation from acorns used by the arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
raccoon: a north american nocturnal carnivore (procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. its body is gray, varied with black and white. called also coon, and mapach.
race: to raze.-a root.-the descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.-company; herd; breed.-a variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.-peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.-hence, characteristic quality or disposition.-a progress; a course; a movement or progression.-esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.-hence: the act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.-competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.-a strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the portland race; the race of alderney.-the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.-a channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.-to run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.-to run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.-to cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.-to run a race with.
racemation: a cluster or bunch, as of grapes.-cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes.
raceme: a flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
racemic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds of grapes. it is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. it is a sour white crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids.
racemose: resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.
racer: one who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.-the common american black snake.-one of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.
rache: a dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.
rachialgia: a painful affection of the spine; especially, pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.
rachidian: of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. same as rhachidian.
rachitis: literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. see rickets.-a disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds.
racial: of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial complexion.
rack: same as arrack.-the neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.-a wreck; destruction.-thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.-to fly, as vapor or broken clouds.-to amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.-a fast amble.-to draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.-an instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.-an engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.-an instrument for bending a bow.-a grate on which bacon is laid.-a frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.-a frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.-a piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. also, a frame to hold shot.-a frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.-a frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.-a distaff.-a bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.-that which is extorted; exaction.-to extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.-to torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.-to stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.-to wash on a rack, as metals or ore.-to bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
rack-rent: a rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent.-to subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.
rack-renter: one who is subjected to paying rack-rent.-one who exacts rack-rent.
racket: a thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. it is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.-a variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.-a snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.-a broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.-to strike with, or as with, a racket.-confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.-a carouse; any reckless dissipation.-to make a confused noise or racket.-to engage in noisy sport; to frolic.-to carouse or engage in dissipation.
racket-tail: any one of several species of humming birds of the genus steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped.
racket-tailed: having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.
rackett: an old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
racktail: an arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.
racy: having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.-hence: exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
raddle: a long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.-a hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.-an instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.-to interweave or twist together.-a red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle.-to mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.
radial: of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (bot.) radial projections; (zool.) radial vessels or canals; (anat.) the radial artery.