Quasimodo
in the Roman calendar, a term applied to the first Sunday after Easter, from the opening words of the introit for that day, "quasi modo geniti infantes" as (infants) lately (born).
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Single-source entries: Q (3)
These 19 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Quasimodo, Quassia, Quaternary.
Quassia
in botany the typical genus of the order Simarubaceæ. Q. Q. amara is a tree cultivated in the West Indies and the parts adjacent. In pathology, the Surinam quassia is Q. amara; Jamaica quassia, the wood of Picræna excelsa. It comes to this country in logs or billets, and is retailed as chips or raspings. It is given as an extract, an infusion, or a tincture, and acts as a pure bitter and stomachic, and as an antiperiodic.
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Quaternary
or POST-TERTI- ARY, the fourth great division of the fossiliferous strata, which embraces the Pleistocene or Glacial and Post-glacial and Recent systems.
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Quaternion
in mathematics, the metrographic relation existing between any two right ight lines, having definite lengths and directions in space, depending on four irreducible geometrical elements. 396 QUATREMÈRE DE QUINCY
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Quathlamba Mountains
a range in South Africa, forming the W. boundary of Zululand and Natal; also the Drakensberg Mountains.
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Quatre-Bras
a village of Belgium; about 10 miles S. S. E. of Waterloo; at the intersection of the great roads from Brussels to Charleroi, and from Nivelles to Namur, whence its name ("four arms"). On June 16, 1815, two days before the battle of Waterloo, Quatre- Bras was the scene of a desperate battle between the English under Wellington and the French under Ney. The honors of the field remained with the former; but the severe defeat of Blücher the same day at Ligny compelled Wellington to retreat. The loss on the English side was 5,200, on the French 4,140, among the allies being the Duke of Brunswick, the gallant chief of the Black Brunswickers. A monument to his memory, a bronze lion 10½ feet high, was erected in 1890.
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Quatrocento
a term applied to the charac characteristic style of the artists who practiced in the 14th century.
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Quaver
a shake or rapid vibration of the voice; a shake on an instrument of music. Also a note and measure of time, equal to half a crotchet or the eighth of a semibreve.
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Quay
a landing place; a wharf projecting into a stream, harbor, or basin, to which vessels are moored for the purpose of receiving and delivering freight.
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Quay
MATTHEW STANLEY, an American legislator; born in Dillsburg, Pa., Sept. 30, 1833; was graduated at Jefferson College, admitted to the bar in 1854; entered the Union army in 1861, was promoted lieutenant-colonel and assistant commissary general; received a congressional medal of honor for exceptional service; became State treasurer of Pennsylvania in 1885; and was a United States Senator in 1887-1899. Early in the latter year he was placed on trial on charges of misappropriation of public funds, and on April 21 was acquitted. Governor Stone appointed him United States Senator ad interim. In 1901 he was re-elected to the United States Senate. He died May 29, 1904.
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Quebracho
in botany, Aspidosperma quebracho, a Chilean apocynaceous tree; its bark is used as a febrifuge and in lung or bronchial diseases. It is called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican tree.
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Quedah
or KEDAH, a state on the side of the Malay Peninsula, with W. area of 3,600 square miles. Pop. about 250,000, nominally subject to Siam. The capital, from which the state takes its name, has a population of about 30,000.
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Quedlinburg
a town of Prussia, at the N. base of the Harz Mountains; 56 miles S. E. of Brunswick. Founded by Henry the Fowler in 924, it is still in part surrounded by a wall flanked with towers. On an eminence overlooking the town stands the castle, which prior to the ab- Reformation was the residence of the besses of Quedlinburg. The town has manufactures of sugar, wire goods, and farinaceous foods. Pop. about 27,500. QUEEN ADELAIDE ARCHIPEL- AGO, a group of islands, belonging to Chile; N. of the W. entrance of the Strait separated by_Smyth Chanof Magellan; nel from King William Land on the mainland.
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Queen Anne's Bounty
the name given to a fund appropriated to increase the income of the poorer clergy of England, created out of the first fruits and tenths, which before the Reformation formed part of the papal exactions from the clergy.
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Queen Bee
in entomology, a fully developed female bee in a hive or nest. She lays 2,000 or 3,000 eggs daily during the height of summer, or more than lifetime, which is 1,000,000 during her about five years. See BEE. ISLANDS, QUEEN CHARLOTTE a group to the N. of Vancouver Island, off the coast of British Columbia; area, 5,100 square miles. The two principal islands, Graham and Moresby, have a length of 160 and a greatest breadth of nearly 70 miles. The climate is healthy, but very rainy. Anthracite coal, copper and iron ore, and gold bearing quartz have been found, and forests abound. The inhabitants are about 2,000 Indians, who engage in fishing. BOROUGH. See NEW QUEEN'S YORK.
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Queen's College
for women, was established in London, in 1848, and incorporated by royal charter in 1853. Its aim is to provide for the higher education of women, in the first place by a liberal by school training, and subsequently a six years' course of college education.
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Queen's Pigeon
a magnificent the islands of the Indian Ocean, named after Queen Victoria. QUEEN'S or KING'S SPEECH, a tropical. The rainfall document prepared by the advisers (i. the cabinet) of the sovereign and e., from the throne in bane is about 35 read by him or her the House of Lords, or in his or her are similar to lord chancellor, at the those of the rest absence by the opening and closing of each session of N. rivers. in which are set forth the Parliament, of the empire and the general relations measures the ministers intend to bring forward.
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Queen's Yellow
the yellow subpigment sulphate of mercury, used as a . 60 miles off
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Quelpart
an island ; about 40 miles the S. coast of Korea -bound and long by 17 broad. It is rock , the volcanic Mount Auckmountainous high. It has land beir being 6,500 feet and good timber, and is fertile soil populous. QUERÉTARO, capital of State of miles; pop. Querétaro (area, 4,493 square Mexico, on the tableabout 250,000), E. of Mexico City. Its land 112 miles N. buildings include a magnificent cathedral, palace, city hall, ornate theater State Streets are handsome and bull ring. , gardens. Induswith large plazas and mills, and mining tries include cotton on throughout Cattle breeding is carried State, and in the valleys the district and highly developed. Pop agriculture is . about 35,000.
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