Syn. -- To extinguish; still; stifle; allay; cool; check.
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.
Quench"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being quenched.
Quench"er (?), n. One who, or that which, quenches. Hammond.
Quench"less, a. Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as,
quenchless fire or fury. "Once kindled, quenchless evermore." Byron.
Syn. -- Inextinguishable; unquenchable.
-- Quench"less*ly, adv. -- Quench"less*ness, n.
Que*nelle" (?), n. [F.] (Cookery) A kind of delicate forcemeat,
commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.
Que*nouille train"ing (?). [F. quenouille distaff.] (Hort.) A method of
training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying
down the branches and pruning.
Quer`ci*tan"nic (?), a. [L. quercus an oak + E. tannic.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and
extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.
Quer"cite (?), n. (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5,
found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste,
and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.
Quer"ci*tin (?), n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance, occurring
quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree
bark, horse- chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the
decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.
Quer"cit*rin (?), n. [Cf. F. quercitrin. See Quercitron.] (Chem.) A
glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter
citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called
quercitron.
Quer"cit*ron (?), n. [F. quercitron, the name of the name of tree; L.
quercus an oak + citrus the citron tree.] 1. The yellow inner bark of
the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak,
or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern
Texas.