Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Quinoline

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Quinoline


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(n.) A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type.