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distillations. The term is now obsolete ; 

 but was formerly used to express the 

 highest degree of rectification to which 

 any substance can be brought. 



QUIXTILE, in astronomy, an aspect of 

 the planets, when they are seventy-two 

 degrees distant from one another, or a 

 fifth part of the zodiac. 



QUINTO Exactus, in law, the fifth and 

 last call of a defendant who is sued to 

 outlawry ; whereupon, if he appears not, 

 he is by the judgment of the coroners 

 returned outlawed. 



QUIRE of Paper, the quantity of twen- 

 ty-four or twenty-five sheets. 



QUISQUALIS, in botany, a genus of 

 the Decandria Monogynia class and or- 

 der. Natural order of Vepreculae. Thy- 

 melex, Jussieu. Essential character: 

 calyx five-cleft, filiform; petals five; 

 drupe five-cornered. There is but one 

 species; viz. Q. indica, a native of the 

 East Indies, China, and Cochinchina. 



QUI tarn, in law, is part of the phrase 

 fjui tarn pro domine rege quant pro se ipso in 

 hac pnrte seqmtur , who sues as well for 

 our Lord the King as himself, and de- 

 notes an action for a penalty which is 

 given in part to the first person who will 

 sue. 



QUIT Rent, a small acknowledgment 

 paid in money, so called, because such 

 payment acquitted the tenant from all 

 other services and duties to the lord. 

 (t is considered chiefly as an acknow- 

 ledgment of tenancy and proof of copy- 

 hold. 



QUOIL, or COIL, in the sea-language, 

 a rope or cable laid up round, one fack 

 or turn over another, so that it may the 



more easily be stowed out of the way, 

 and also run out free and smooth, with- 

 out twistings or doublings. 



QUOIN, or COIN, on board a ship, a 

 wedge fastened on the deck close to the 

 breech of a carriage of a gun, to keep it 

 firm up to the ship side. Cantic quoins 

 are short three legged quoins put be- 

 tween casks to keep them steady. 



QUOINS, in architecture, denote the 

 corners of brick or stone walls. The 

 word is particularly used for the stones 

 in the corners of brick buildings. When 

 these stand out beyond the brick-work, 

 their edges being chamfered off, they 

 are called rustic quoins. 



QUOITS, a kind of exercise or game 

 known among the ancients under the 

 name discus. 



QUORUM, a word which often occurs 

 in our statutes, and is much used in com- 

 missions, both of justices of the peace, 

 and others, and so called from the words 

 of the commission, quorum unum esse 

 voluanis, of whom we wish that A, B, &c. 

 should be one. All magistrates are now of 

 the quorum. 



QUOTIENT, in arithmetic, the num- 

 ber which arises by dividing the dividend 

 by the divisor. 



QUO minus, in law, is the name of a 

 writ of different sorts, but principally 

 used in the Court of Exchequer, where 

 it gives the title to the common process. 



QUO Warranto, is in nature of a writ 

 of right for the King, against him who 

 claims or usurps any office, franchise, or 

 liberty, to inquire by what authority he 

 supports his claim, in order to determine 

 the right. 



R. 



ROr r, a liquid consonant, being the 

 ? seventeenth letter of our alphabet. 

 Its sound is formed by a guttural extru- 

 sion of the breath, vibrated through the 

 mouth, with a sort of quivering motion of 

 the tongue drawn from the teeth, and 

 cannulated with the tip a little elevated 

 towards the palate. In Greek words it is 

 frequently aspirated with an h after it, as 

 in rhapsody, rhetoric, 8cc. otherwise it, is 

 always followed by a vowel at the be- 

 ginning of words and syllables. 



Used as a numeral, R anciently stood 

 for 80, and with a dash over it, thus~R 

 for 80,000 ; but the Greek r, or f, signi- 

 fied an hundred. In the prescriptions of 

 physicians, R or $> stands for recipe, i. f. 

 take. 



RABBETING, in carpentry, the plane- 

 ing, or cutting of channels or grooves in 

 boards, &c. In ship-carpentry it signifies 

 the letting in of the planks of the ship 

 into the keel; which, in the rake and run 



