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Quinoline
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Quinoline'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/q/quinoline.html. 1828.