English Dictionary: quinsy | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quamash \Quam"ash\, n. (Bot.) See {Camass}. | |
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Camass \Cam"ass\, n. [American Indian name.] (Bot.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant ({Camassia esculenta}) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. [Written also {camas}, {cammas}, and {quamash}.] Note: The Eastern cammass is Camassia Fraseri. | |
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Quamash \Quam"ash\, n. (Bot.) See {Camass}. | |
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Camass \Cam"ass\, n. [American Indian name.] (Bot.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant ({Camassia esculenta}) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. [Written also {camas}, {cammas}, and {quamash}.] Note: The Eastern cammass is Camassia Fraseri. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quench \Quench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quenched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quenching}.] [OE. quenchen, AS. cwencan in [be]cwencan, to extinguish utterly, causative of cwincan, [be]cwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. cw[c6]nan, [be]cw[c6]nan, to waste or dwindle away.] 1. To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc. Ere our blood shall quench that fire. --Shak. The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy. --Shak. 2. To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering. Syn: To extinguish; still; stifle; allay; cool; check. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quench \Quench\, v. i. To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool. [R.] Dost thou think in time She will not quench! --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quince \Quince\, n. [Prob. a pl. from OE. quyne, coin, OF. coin, cooin, F. coing, from L. Cydonius a quince tree, as adj., Cydonian, Gr. [?] Cydonian, [?] [?] a quince, fr. [?] Cydonia, a city in Crete, [?] the Cydonians. Cf. {Quiddany}.] 1. 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. 2. (Bot.) a quince tree or shrub. {Japan quince} (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub ({Cydonia}, formerly {Pyrus, Japonica}) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament. {Quince curculio} (Zo[94]l.), a small gray and yellow curculio ({Conotrachelus crat[91]gi}) whose larva lives in quinces. {Quince tree} (Bot.), the small tree ({Cydonia vulgaris}) which produces the quince. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quinch \Quinch\, v. i. [Cf. OD. quincken to quiver, shake, Fries. quink hovering. Cf. {Quich}.] To stir; to wince. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quinic \Quin"ic\, a. [See {Quinine}, and cf. {Kinic}.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance. [Written also {chinic}, {kinic}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quinque- \Quin"que-\ [L. quinque five. See {Five}.] A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quinsy \Quin"sy\, n. [Contr. fr. squinancy, F. esquinancie, L. cynanche a sort of sore throat, Gr. [?] sore throat, dog quinsy, fr. [?] dog + [?] to choke; cf. also L. synanche sore throat, Gr. [?]. Cf. {Hound}, {Anger}, and {Cynanche}.] (Med.) 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}. | |
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Quinze \Quinze\, n. [F.] A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
QNX {POSIX}-certified, {microkernel}, multi-user, {multitasking}, {ROMable}, {fault-tolerant}, embeddable {operating system} that supports {TCP/IP}, {NFS}, {FTP}, the {X Window System}, {Microsoft Windows} as a guest process, {Ethernet}, {Token Ring}, {Arcnet} and {Watcom} {ANSI C}/{C++}. Support for {Pentium}, {486}, {386}, {286}, {80x87}. Developed and distributed by QNX Software Systems, Ltd. Current version: 6.1, as of 2001-09-02. {QNX Home (http://www.qnx.com/)}. {OpenQNX: The QNX community portal (http://www.openqnx.com)}. {Papers (ftp://ftp.cse.ucsc.edu/pub/qnx/qnx-paper.ps.Z)}. (128.114.134.19). {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.os.qnx}. E-mail: (2003-07-27) |