1. To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; — said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively
of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.
Ere our blood shall quench that fire.
Shak.
The supposition of the lady's death
Will quench the wonder of her infamy.
Shak. 2. To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
Syn. — To extinguish; still; stifle; allay; cool; check.
Quench
(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. Quenchable
(Quench"a*ble) a. Capable of being quenched.
Quencher
(Quench"er) n. One who, or that which, quenches. Hammond.
Quenchless
(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.
Quenelle
(Que*nelle") n. [F.] (Cookery) A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as
a dish by itself or for garnishing.
Quenouille training
(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.
Quercitannic
(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.
Quercite
(Quer"cite) n. (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit
of the oak It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.
Quercitin
(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.
Quercitrin
(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.
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.
2. Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.
Quercus
(||Quer"cus) n. [L., an oak.] (Bot.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.
