Quinoline

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quinoline \Quin"o*line\, n. [Quinine + L. oleum oil + -ine.]
     (Chem.)
     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. [Written also {chinoline}.]
     [1913 Webster]