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Queen's Yellow – Quinquagesima Sunday

Queen's Yellow

the yellow subsulphate of mercury, used as a pigment .

Quern

a mill, especially a hand mill for grinding corn, used before the invention of water or windmills .

Quetzalcoatl

the god of the air of the ancient Mexicans, who presided over commerce and the useful arts, and is said to have predicted the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico.

Quevedo Y Villegas

DON FRANCISCO DE, a Spanish poet and prose writer; born in Madrid, Spain, in 1580. His prose works are mostly 'effusions of humor and satire. His "Visions" (Sueños) have been translated into most European languages. He died in 1645.

Quillaia

QUILLAJA, or QUIL- LAYA, large evergreen trees. Three or four species are known; all from South America. ca. Q. saponaria is the Quillai or Cullay. Also the bark of the Q. saponaria. It is used as a source of saponin, which is extracted with alcohol.

Quiloa

or KILWA, a seaport of East Africa, in former German territory, 190 miles S. of Zanzibar, and an outlet for the trade with Nyassaland, exports ivory, gum copal, rice, and manioc.

Quilting

a method of sewing two pieces of silk, linen, or stuff on each other, with wool or cotton between them, by working them all over in the form of chequer or diamond work, or in flowers.

Quimper

a town of France, in the department of Finistère, on the Odet, 11 miles from its mouth, and 63 miles S. E. of Brest. Its cathedral (1239-1515), a stately and richly-carved and ornamental edifice, is the principal building. Potteries are in operation, as well as tan yards, sailworks, etc. Pop. about 20,000.

Quinine

in chemistry, C20H24N2O20 chinin or quinia; the most important alkaloid of the true cinchona barks, first obtained, but in an impure state, by Gomez, of Lisbon, in 1811.

Quinine Sulphates

the neutral or common medicinal sulphate, 2C20H 24 N₂O2 H2SO4+8H2O; prepared by the neutralizing quinine with dilute sulphuric acid. Quinine sulphate is largely employed as a febrifuge and tonic, and it possesses powerful antiseptic properties.

Quinoline

a pungent colorless liquid obtained by the distillation of bones, coal tar, and various alkaloids.

Sunday next before Lent, being about 50 days before Easter.

Quinquagesima Sunday

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