Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete name for butane.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.

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  • noun chemistry, obsolete butane

Etymologies

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Latin quartus, "fourth", and -ane. Each molecule of butane has four carbon atoms.

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Examples

  • Palsies and trembling in mans body, begetting grosse humors, which stop the Milt and Liver: and _Auicen_ proveth, that by eating thereof men incur the quartane Ague; wherefore it is good to powder them with salt before the dressing, and then seasoned with Peper and other things, known to every ordinary Cook and woman, they make of them Pasties in most Nations,” p.  103, ed.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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