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Pyrrole
- - A nitrogenous heterocyclic base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red.
Quackle
- - To suffocate; to choke.
Quashee
- - A negro of the West Indies.
Quayage
- noun - a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay
Querele
- - A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.
Quibble
- noun - an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
- evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
Quiddle
- - To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
Quiesce
- verb - become quiet or quieter;
Quinate
- - Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.