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QTTIE'TCS (Latin), rest. An exchequer 



' cerm, used for discharge or acquittance 



to accountants. In law, a quietus est, 



granted to a sheriff, discharges him of all 



accounts due to the crown. 



QUILL, Ir. cuille, a reed. Quills are the 

 hard and strong feathers of geese, &c., 

 used in writing. They are divided into 

 firsts, seconds, thirds, and flags, according 

 to their order in the wing : the seconds 

 and thirds are the best. The Riga quills 

 are the finest, and the first quality of 

 these brings in London about 3 per 

 mille = 1200. 



QUILT, 11. A stuff made by putting 



QDILT'ING. } wool, cotton, &c., between 



pieces of cloth, and sewing them together. 



2. The act of making a quilt is also 



named quilting. 



QUI'NATE. 1. In chemistry, the same as 

 Jcinate, the quinic acid being the same as 

 the kinic. 2. In botany, from Lat. quin- 

 que, five, an epithet for a digitate leaf 

 having five leaflets on a petiole. 



QUINCE. The fruit of the pyrus cydonia, 

 called the Cydonian apple (Cydonium ma- 

 lum) by the ancients, from a town in 

 Crete, in the neighbourhood of which it 

 abounded. 



QUIN'CUNX, Lat. corrup. of 'quinque and 

 wncto. In horticulture, the quincunx order 

 is a plantation of five trees, disposed one 

 at each corner, and the fifth in the mid- 

 dle \ | and this order, repeated inde- 

 finitely, forms a regular grove, which 

 viewed by an angle of the square or 

 parallelogram, presents equal or parallel 

 layers. 



QUINDEC'AGON, from, quinque, five, and 

 decagon (q. v.). A plain geometrical figure, 

 with fifteen sides and as many angles. 



QCINDECEM'VIRI. Roman magistrates, 

 to whose care was intrusted the Sibylline 

 books. 



QUIN'IJIA, lAn alkali obtained from 

 QUIN'INE. j the yellow Peruvian bark, 

 called quinquina by the French. The 

 sulphate, or rather disulphate of quinina 

 is much employed in medicine, and pos- 

 sesses all the virtues of the bark in a high 

 degree of concentration. Quinina when 

 pure is pearly white, and intensely bitter. 

 It crystallises (but with much difficulty) 

 in silky flocculi. 



QUINQUAGES'IMA SUNDAY. Shrove-Sun- 



day, so called, being about the fiftieth 



day before Easter (quinquagesima, fifty). 



QUINQUAN'GULAR, Lat. quinque and an- 



gulus. Having five angles. 



QUINQCECAP'SULAR, Lat quinque and 

 capsula. Having five capsules. 



QuiNauEDEN'TATE, Lat. quinqut and 

 dentatus. Five-toothed. 



(J-iNarEFo'LiATE. Lat. quinque and/o- 

 liatut. Fire-leaved. 



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QUINQUELO'BATE, Lat. quiiique and loba- 

 tut. Five-lobed. 



QUINQUELOC'ULAR, Lat. quinqut and 

 locularis. Five celled. 



QUINQUENA'LIA. Anciently, publie 

 games celebrated every five yean. 



QTTINQUERE'MIS, quinque and remtis, ap 

 oar. A Roman war-ship having five banks 

 of oars. 



QUINQCEVAT/VULAR, Lat. quinque and 

 valvularis. Having five valves. 



QOIN'TAL (Fr.). A weight originally of 

 100 Ibs., but now commonly of 112 Ibs. Ir, 

 however differs considerably in different 

 countries. 



QUINTESSENCE, Lat. quintet essentia, fifth 

 essence. 1. A term used by the alchemists 

 to signify the active principle of anything, 

 in which its properties and virtues reside, 

 separated by art from the inert matters 



with which it is combined. 2. The 



pure essential part of anything. The 

 term is now chiefly used by quack doc- 

 tors and perfumers. 



QUIN'TILE, from quintal, fifth. The 

 aspect of the planets, when distant from 

 each other the fifth part of the zodiac, or 

 72 degrees. 



QUINTII/IANS. A sect of ancient here- 

 tics, founded by Quintilia. 



QCIN'TINE. The fifth envelope of the 

 vegetable ovulum. 



QUINTUPLE. In music, a species cf 

 time, containing five crotchets in a bar. 



QUIN'ZAINE. The fourteenth day after a 

 feast day, in chronology, or the fifteenth, 

 including the feast day. 



QUI'POS. A name given, in Peru, to 

 knots and cords of various colours, which 

 imperfectly supply the place of writing. 



QUI PRO Quo, Lat. one for another. A 

 verbal ambiguity. 



QUIRI'TES. The common people of an- 

 cient Rome, as opposed to the soldiery. 



QUIRK. In building, a piece taken out 

 of any regular ground plot or floor. 



QUIRK'ED MOULDING. In architecture, 

 one whose convexity is sudden, in the 

 form of a conic section. 



QUI-TAM. In law, an information, when 

 the party informing prosecutes for the 

 king and himself. 



QUIT-CLAIM. In law, a release of any 

 action that one person has against an- 

 other: a deed of release by which all 

 claims are relinquished to another with- 

 out warranty. 



QUIT-RENT, Lat. quietus redditus. In 

 law, a small rent reserved, payable in 

 token of subjection. 



QCIT'TER-BONE. In farriery, a hard 

 round swelling on the coronet, between 

 the heel and the quarter, usually on thu 

 inside of the foot. 



Quo ANIMO (Lat.). With what miivl : 

 with what intent, as animofurandi, v'tb 

 the intention of stealing. 



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