Definition of quin

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Quin (n.) A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food..

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Quinizine :: Quinizine (n.) any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics..
Squint :: Squint (v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye..
Skelly :: Skelly (v. i.) To squint.
Squiny :: Squinting () a. & n. from Squint, v..
Squint :: Squint (a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2..
Cream :: Cream (n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures..
Quinoxyl :: Quinoxyl (n.) The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid.
Askew :: Askew (adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry..
Quint :: Quint (n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet..
Foil :: Foil (n.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed..
Conchinine :: Conchinine (n.) See Quinidine.
Quiname :: Quiname (a.) Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.
Quinogen :: Quinogen (n.) A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
Lepidodendron :: Lepidodendron (n.) A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks..
Herapathite :: Herapathite (n.) The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light..
Flavol :: Flavol (n.) A yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl derivative of it..
Phenanthridine :: Phenanthridine (n.) A nitrogenous hydrocarbon base, C13H9N, analogous to phenanthrene and quinoline..
Point :: Point (n.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal..
Subreader :: Subquintuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to five; as, subquintuple proportion..
Quinine :: Quinine (n.) 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..
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