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   qualm
         n 1: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: {scruple},
               {qualm}, {misgiving}]
         2: a mild state of nausea [syn: {queasiness}, {squeamishness},
            {qualm}]

English Dictionary: qualm by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Qualm \Qualm\, n. [AS. cwealm death, slaughter, pestilence, akin
      to OS. & OHG. qualm. See {Quail} to cower.]
      1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [Obs.]
  
                     thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead].
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
            [bd] Qualms of heartsick agony.[b8] --Milton.
  
      3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.
  
                     For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy
                     garbage, though by Homer cooked?         --Roscommon.
  
      4. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of
            conscience; compunction. --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Saponin \Sap"o*nin\, n. [L. sapo, -onis soap: cf. F. saponine.]
      (Chem.)
      A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of
      soapwort ({Saponaria}), in the bark of soap bark
      ({Quillaia}), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous
      powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and
      produces a local an[91]sthesia. Formerly called also
      {struthiin}, {quillaiin}, {senegin}, {polygalic acid}, etc.
      By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which
      saponin proper is the type.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Qulin, MO (city, FIPS 60428)
      Location: 36.59789 N, 90.24913 W
      Population (1990): 384 (187 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 63961
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