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cinchona (iou) and ROLL (law)


cinchona (iou)



cinchona noun. . M18.
[mod. Latin, from Countess of Chinchon (d. 1641), vicereine of Peru, who introduced the drug to Spain.]
An evergreen tree or shrub of the S. American genus Cinchona, of the madder family, with fragrant flowers. M18.
= cinchona bark below. Also, a drug made from cinchona bark. L18.
Comb.: cinchona bark the dried bark of a cinchona (as a source of quinine and Other medicinal alkaloids).
cinchonicine,
cinchonidine nouns cinchona alkaloids isomeric with cinchonine M19.
cinchonine noun an alkaloid, C19H22ON2, with febrifuge properties, found with quinine in cinchona bark E19.
cinchonism noun poisoning due to excessive ingestion of cinchona alkaloids M19.

ROLL (law)


ROLL. A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob, L. D. h.t. form of a pipe or tube. Jacob, L. D. h.t. 2. In early times, before paper came in common use, parchment was the 2. In early times, before paper came in common use, parchment was the substance employed for making records, and, as the Art of bookbinding was substance employed for making records, and, as the Art of bookbinding was but little used, economy suggested as the most convenient mode of adding but little used, economy suggested as the most convenient mode of adding sheet to sheet, as were found requisite, and they were tacked together in sheet to sheet, as were found requisite, and they were tacked together in such manner that the whole length might be wound up together in the form of such manner that the whole length might be wound up together in the form of spiral rolls. spiral rolls. 3. Figuratively it signifies the records of a court or office. In 3. Figuratively it signifies the records of a court or office. In Pennsylvania the master of the rolls was an officer in whose office were Pennsylvania the master of the rolls was an officer in whose office were recorded the acts of the legislature. 1 Smith' s Laws, 46. recorded the acts of the legislature. 1 Smith' s Laws, 46.