in Chemistry, a preparation consisting of the essential oil of some vegetable substance, mixed and incorporated with spirit of wine.

in Alchemy, is a mysterious term, signifying the fifth or last and highest essence of power in a natural body.—Or when divested of its alchemical signification, and employed to express something that is intelligible, the word denotes merely the highest state of purification in which any body can be exhibited.

**QUINTAL**, the weight of 100 lbs. in most countries, but in England it is the cwt. or 112 lbs. Quintal was formerly used for a weight of lead, iron, or other common metal, usually equal to 100 lbs. at six scores to the hundred.