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QUINQUAGESIMAL. Quiuquage'simal, a. [f. as prec. + -AI..] belonging to a set of fifty ; containing fifty days. 1844 LINCARD Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. xL 179 note, The quinquagesimal days were the fifty days between Easter and Whitsunday. 1884 SCIIAFF Encycl. Relig. Knmvl. III. 1801/2 As designating the last day of this quinqua- ' gesimal period, the word Pentecost ' is first found in.. 305. t Quiiiquagesime, -gesme. Obs. Also 5 quynquegesym, qwynquaaim (?), 6 -gissime. [a. OF. quinquaghime (i4thc.)orad. med.L. quinquagesima : see above.] = QUINQUAGESIMA. c 1380 WYCLIF Sel. Wks. II. 40 J>e Gospel on J>ursdai in Cath. Angl. 297/2 Ouynquegesym (A. Qwynquasim), quin. qitagesima. 1533 MORE Debell. Salem Wks. 1030/2 1'he priestes should eate no flesh fro quinquagissime to Easter. c 1535 FISHER Wks, (E. E. T. S.) 434 Y" gospell.redde in the church this quinquagesime sondaye. 1658 in PHILLIPS. t Qurnquangle, a. and sb. Obs. rare. [ad. late L. qitinquangulus, -urn f. (Priscian, Boeth.J, quinque five + angulus ANGLE. Cf. obs. F. qiiinqitangle (Godef.).] A. adj. ' Having five angles or corners' (Blount Glossogr. 1656). B. sb. A pentagon. i68 H. MORE Div. Dial. 1. 29 To inscribe a Quinquangle into a Circle. 1677 PLOT Oxfordsh. 334 Rather a quinquangle than a square. 1788 T. TAYLOR Proclvs I. 178 A triangle . . will in this case have all its angles acute, and a quinquangle all its angles obtuse. Quinquangular (kwinkwreTjgi?.; qni-nqueflda. (see QUINQUIFID) ; f quinquefoil, cinquefoil ; quinquefo-liats, f -foliated, -fo'liolate, -jvrgou8,-la'teral, -li-brala^>.; quinqueli'teral a. and sb.; quiuquolo-bate, -lobed, -lo'oular, f -mestrial adjs. ; f -metre ; -uefval, -nerved, -pedal, -peda-lian, -pe-taloid, -pu-notal, -pu-notate, -ra-diate, -se-ptate, -se-rial, -se-riate, -sylla'bic adjs. ; quinquesyllable ; quinquetube'roular, -tube'rculate adjs, ; quinquevalent a. = QUINQUIVALENT ; qui-nquevalve a. and ^.,t-va-lvous,-va-lvular,-veTbal,-ve-rbiala^. 1590 MARLOWE md Pt. Tamhirl. HI. iii, In champion grounds what figure serves you best, For which the *quinqueangle form is meet. 1679 MOXON Alath. Diet, 125 *Quinqvg' Angled. 1760?. MILLER Introd. Bot. 21 A *quinqueangular or five cornered leaf. 1856-8 W. CLARK Van der ffoeven's Zool. I. 318 Abdomen *qumqueannulate. lbi>t. 300 Antennae filiform, *quinquearticulate. 1870 ROLLESTON Anim. Life . . . 152 It is said to be .. live-ribbed or *quinquecostate. 1760 66 J. LEE Introd. But. 11. xx. (1765) 116 The Brim *quinquedentate. 1870 BF.NTLEY Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 217, 5-toothed or tjuinquedentate. 1777 PENNANT British Zool, (ed. 2) IV. 4 Smooth body, *quinque-dentated front. 1858 MAYNE Expos, Lex.QuinquedigitatHs, . . *quinquedigitated. i8j8WEBSTER, *Quinquefariotts. 1617 MINSHEU Ditctor, *Quinquefoile, leaf,., a pinnate leaf, with rive pairs of leaflets. 1856-! CLARK Van der Hoevens- ZooL I. 157 Kody cylindrical or *quinquelateral. 1656 BLOUNT Glossogr.^ *Qitinque-libral, . .of five pound weight. 1674 JEAKE Arith. (1696) 91 Some mention a Triple Choenix, as Bilibral, Quadrilibral, and Quinquelibral. 1793 BEDDOES Math. Evid. 133 They assume triliteral ana quadriliteral. .roots, and are doubtful whether there are not *quinqueliteraL 1846-52 B. DAVIES tr. Gesenius' Ifeb. Grant, n. Jj 30 Combining into one word two triliteral stems, by which process even quinqueliterals .are formed. 1819 Pantologia X. *Quinquelooate leaf. 1849-52 TODD Cycl. Anat, IV. 875/1 Sometimes it [the tooth] is made quinquelobate by a double notch. 1775 J. JEN* KI\'.SON tr. Linnaeus' Brit. PI. Gloss. 255 *Quinquelobed. 1760 J. LEE Introd. Bot. n. xxxii. (1765) 157 Campanula, with Fruit *quinquelocular. 1870 BENTLEY Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 290 The ovary is quinquelocular. 1611 CORYAT Crudities Char. Authour, Author of these *Quinque-mestriale Crudities, c 1560 Am 1 . PARKER Psalter 1! j, Dauid Metres made ; 1855 Fraser's Mag. LI. 63 A series of tripedal, quadrupedal, and *quinquepedal cocks. 1841 HODGSON Life Napoleon in R. Oastler fleet Papers (1842) II. 397 Its lengthened "quinquepedalian notes. 1678 PHILLIPS (ed. 4) List Bar. barous Words, *Quinquipunctal, having five points. 1858 MAYNE Expos. Lex., Quitiquepunctatus, . . "quinquepunctate. 1886 A tkenaeum 12 June 782/3 There are four, six, culate. 1776 DA COSTA Eleui. Conchol. xiv. 270 Anatifera: or Barnacles. These shells are *quinque-valves. 1777 PENNANT Brit. Zool, (ed. 2) IV. 5 Mouth quinquevalve, beneath. 1681 GREW Catal, Rarities Greskam Coll. placed fab. 14 Indian Plum-stones. ."Quinquevalvous, Oval. i8a8 WEBSTER, *(?K?'a/z/j/w/Ventns Mundi i. (1870) 21 To provide . . for the recitation of his songs . . quinquennially at tne Panathenaia. 1888 Times (weekly ed.) 3 Feb. 16/3 On behalf of the quinquennialists, it was argued that the change was one of mere expediency. tQuinque-nnie, f. anglicized next. Obs. rare *. 1606 True * Perfect Relat. H 3 In the Quinquennie, the five yeeres of Queene Mary, there were cruelly put to death, about 300 persons for Religion. II Quinquennium (kwinkwe*nu>m). Pl.-ennia. [L. f f. quinque five + annus year.] A period of five years ; f spec, in Law (see quot. 1823). x6ax B. JONSON Gipsies Metam. Wks. (Rtldg.) 619/1 He.. looks as if he never saw his quinquennium* 1654 tr. Bendery's Curia Pol. 77, I am out young, and have not seen more then a Quinquennium of my reig^n. i77i-a Ess, fr. Batchelor (1773) II. 204 In the quinquemum (sic) of Lord Townshend's administrations. 1823 CRABB, Quinquennium^ a respite of five years, which insolvent debtors formerly obtained, by virtue of the King's letter, to have time for the payment of their debts. 1879 GLADSTONE in iqth Cent. Sept. 580 The last quinquennium of trade does not exhibit an increase. Quinquepartite (kwinkwJpaMtsit), a. [ad. L. quinquepartitus, f. quinqtte five + partitas pa. pple. of parttri to divide: cf. F. quinqittpartite^ Divided into, consisting of, five parts. 1591 WEST ist Pt. Symbol. 47 These deedes indented are not only bypartite . . but also may be made tripartite,., quinquepartite [etc.]. 1677 PLOT Oxfordsh. 107 A sort of quinquepartite or stellated eggs. 1725 Land. Gaz. No. 6377/1 The Quinquepartite Indenture. 1760 P. MILLER Introd. Bot. 24 A quinquepartite leaf. 1879 SIR G. SCOTT Lect, Archit. II. 197 It may be adopted on one side only, and so be quinquepartite [vaulting]. Quinqnereme (kwi-nkw/rfm), a. and sb. fad. L. f. quinqttercmis^ quinque five + remits oar : cf. F. quinqufrtme (1530).] A. adj. Of ancient ships: Having five banks of oars. 1654-66 EARL ORRERY Parthen. (1676) 716 Hardly any one had escaped, but a few Quinquereme Galleys, 1697 [see QUADRIREME A]. 185* GROTE Greece n. Ixxxii. X. 669 One among his newly-invented quinquereme vessels. B. sb. A ship having five banks of oars. X5S3 BRENDE Q. Curtius iv. 41 b, The firste Galley of the Macedons that came nere them was a quinquereme. 1600 HOLLAND Livy XLII. xlvii. 1143 Himselfe was sent back againe with certaine Quinqueremes. 1734 tr. Rollings Anc* Hist. (1827) I. n, 376 Quinqueremes, or galleys with five benches of oars. 1709 [see QUADRIREME B]. 1840 ARNOLD Hist. Rome II. 566 1 ney had not a single quinquereme, the class of ships which may be called (he line of battle ships of that period. 1865 Athensewn No. 1949. 307/3 A Carthaginian quinquereme. f Quinque-rtian, 1 a. Obs. rare- . [f.L.yuinquerti-um, f. quinqne + ars ART.] = PENTATHLIC. 1623 BINGHAM Xenophon 80 Other wrestled, and fought with fists, and vsed the Quinquertian exercise. Quinquesect (kwi-nkw/sekt), v. Also 7-9 quinqui-. [f. L. quinque five + sect- ppl. stem of secdre to cut, after *'-, trisect.] To cut into five (equal) parts. Hence Qui -nquesecting vbL sb. 1697 G. K. Disc. Geom. Problems 7 By quinqui section of the Cord of an Angle it [the angle] is quinqulsected. 1786 Phil. Trans. LXXVI. 16 Mr. Graham.. perceived.. how very much more easy a given line was to bisect than to trisect or quinquesect. 1809 CAVENDISH ibui. XCIX. 225 Let ao. be the arch to be quinquesected. Ibid. 227 In quinquesecting the error of the two middle points is 2.4 times greater than in bisecting. 1853 SIR W. R. HAMILTON in R. P. Graves Life (1889) HI. 453 The Royal Commissioners .. have precisely quinquisected the diligence. So Quinquese-ction, section into five parts. 1684 [see QUINTUPLATION]. 1697 [see above]. 1786 Pkil. Trans. LXXVI. 16 The division of the arc of 90. required trisections and quinquesecdons. 18*5 J. NICHOLSON Operat. Mechanic 320, I was apprehensive some error might arise from quinquesect ion and trisect ion. Quinquevirate(kwinkwe'vir^t). Also 8 quinquin- (??. [ad. L. quinqueviratus , f. quinqueviri five men.] An association, board, etc., consisting of five men. Also attrib. 1710 HARLEV Seer. Hist. Arlns fy Odolpkns 20 Odolphus . . went himself Express with the news of his Defeat to the Quinquinvirate. 1763 tr, Bitsching s Syst. Ceof*. V. 513 The quinquevirate- court for the reparation of injuries. 1885 ia/. Rev . 3 Jan. i/i When the Quinquevirate sat round that famous table. Quinquifid (kwrnkwifid), a. Bot. Also 8-9 quinque-. [ad. L. quinquifid-ns > f. -t- quinque fid- : see QUADBIFID.] Cleft in five. 1703 J. PF.TIVER in Pkil. Trans. XXIII. 1425 The calyx is quinquifid and hoary. 1785 MARTYN Rousseau's Bot.
QUINQUINA. xxi. (1794) 291 Their common characters are a quinquefid calyx. 1876 HARL&Y Mat. Med. (ed. 6) 711 The .. true calyx is one-leafed, .with an obtusely quinquifid Margin. fQuinquin, -quene, varr. KINKIN, kilderkin. a 1600 Aberd. Reg. (Jam.), A quinquin of oynyeonis. Ibid., Ane quinquene of peares. Quinquina (kinkrna, kwinkwai'na). Med. Auo 7 kinkina, 8 kinquina. See also QUINA- QUINA. [Sp. spelling of Peruvian (Quichuan) kinkina or kina-kina, rcdupl. of kina bark, QUINA. ' In Quichua, when the name of a plant is reduplicated, it almost invariably implies that it possesses some medicinal '. qualities C. R. Markham Pernv. Bark (1880) 5.) a. Peruvian or Jesuits' bark the bark of several ; species of cinchona, yielding quinine and other febrifugal alkaloids, b. One or other of the trees producing cinchona-bark. 1656 SIR K. DIOBY Let. in Winthrop Papers (1849) 15, I haue made knowne. .in these partes, a barke of a tree that infallibly curelh all intermittent feauours. It cometh from Peru ; and is the barke of a tree called by the Spaniardes Kinkina. 1681 (title) tr. Bellon's New 1846 SOWERBY Brit. Bat, (ed. 3\ Quinsey wort. 1861 Miss PRATT Flower. Ft. III. 159 Its specific name, .as well as its English name of Quinsey-wort Mystery in Ph'ysitk discovered by curing of fevers and agues by quinquina or or Quinancy-wort, refer to its ancient uses in disorders of the throat. Hence Qui'nsied a., afflicted with quinsy. 1855 SINGLETON Virgil I. l?8 Drips from their nostrils sable blood, And presses quinsied jaws a furry tongue. Quinszisme, obs. form of QUINZI^ME. Quint (kwint), sb^ Also 6 quints, [a. F. quint m. (sense l), or quinte !. (senses 2 and 3) : L. quint-us, -a, -urn, ordinal to quinque five.] 1. A tax of one-fifth. 1516 in Dillon Customs of Pale (1892) 83 He must paye to the kinge the v' h pennie of his goods for the quinte. 1852 TH. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav, I. v. 176 The payment of the quint to the officers of the crown. 2. Mus. a. An interval of a fifth. 1865 tr. Spohr's Autobiog. II. 14 Three ugly quints follow each other. 1887 A. RILEY Athos 406 It is not founded upon the modern system of octaves, but is a succession of similar quints. b. (In full quint-stop^) An organ-stop which gives a tone a fifth higher than the normal. 1855 E. J. HOPKINS Organ xxi. no Some [stops] sound g on the C . . key Those are called ' fifth-sounding ' or Quint Stops. Ibid. 117 The Quint on the Pedal is almost invariably composed of stopped pipes. Quint (kint, kwint), sb.- [a. F. f.: quinte see Jesuites' Powder. 1755 Gentl. Mag. XXV. 406 Physicians, who . . prescribe the bark of the Quinquina. 1852 THACKERAY Esmond i. v, He cured him of an aguewith quinquina. 1871 W. H. G. KINGSTON On the banks ofthe Amazon (ityb) 101 Since its use became general in Europe, the export trade of the quinquina has been very considerable. attrib. 1717-41 CHAMBERS Cycl. s-v., The corregidor of Loxa sent to the viceroy a quantity of the quinquina bark. 1880 C. R. MARKHAM Piruv. Bark 17 The first description of the quinquina-tree is due to that memorable French expedition to South America. Quinquinvirate : see QUINQUEVIRATE. t Quinqui-plicate, v. Obs. rare , [f. ppl. stem of L. : quinquiplicdre cf. QUADRUPLICATE ZA] ' To multiply by fives, to double five times ' for a horse. Quinsie;s)m, -sime, obs. forms of QUINZI^ME. Quinsy (kwi'nzi). Forms : a. 4 qwinaci, quinesye, 5 queynose. 0. 5 quynsy, qwynse, 5-6 quynoe, 6 quenoy, 6 quinsye, 7 -S6> -oy, 8 -sie, 6-9 quinsey, (8 -zey), 6- quinsy. 7. 6 quynuanoy, quinanoie, 6, 9 -cy. [ad. med.L. quinancia, f. Gr. Kwafxt CYNANCHE, perh. as a refashioning of the commoner squinancia, whence the current Romanic forms, and Engl. squinacy (i3th c.), -ancy, SQUINSY.] Inflammation of the throat or parts of the throat ; suppuration of the tonsils ; tonsillitis. Also, a form or attack of this. a. 13 .. Minor^ Poems fr. Vernon MS. 16^ Men called }>at vuel Comuynli, pat he hedde the Qwinaci. 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wiilcker 791/9 Hec sfn[in]acia, a queynose. a 1450 ME. Med. Bk. (Hemrich) 215 Ferst lete hym blod .. to rype Je quinesye. P. 14 .. \'oc. in Wr.-Wtilcker 587/32 Glttturna, Quynsy. 14.. Nominate ibid. 709/1 The qwynse. 1493 Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 95 b, On a tyme he was nere deed of the quency. 1534 MORE Com/, Trib. III. Wks. agst. 1246/1 He collereth them by the neck with a quinsye. 1570 B. GOOGE Pop. Kingd. HI. 38 b, Blase driues away the quinsey quight, with water sanctifide. 1646 SiRT. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. 102 A famous medicine in Quinses, sore throats, and strangulations. 1753 RICHARDSON Grandison (1781) II. xvi. 167 She tried to swallow, as one in a quinsey. 1841 CATLIN N.Atner. Ind. (1844) U- Ivi'- 221 An alarming attack of the quinsey or putrid sore throat. 1892 Daily Neu oli g- denoting a house and farm let at a rent of one-fifth (quinta parte) of the produce of the latter.] A countryhouse or villa in Spain or Portugal. 1777 W. DALRYMPLE Trav. Sf. 4 Port, cxxix, Passed several quintas or country houses. 1811 WELLINGTON Let. to Hillm Gurw. Dest. (1838) VIII. 167 My head quarters are in a quinta near Portalegre. 1893 T. B. FOREMAN Trip to Spain 27 We pass some charming quintas, surrounded by gardens ablaze with flowers. Quintagena-rian,erron. f. QUINQUAGENARIAN. 1844 W. H. MAXWELL Sport ff Adv. Scot. ix. (1855) 88 A literary quintagenarian at your elbow. Obs. e\c. Hist. Forms: Quintain 1 (kwi'nten). a. 5-6 quyn-, 6 quiutayne, 6-7 -aine, 6- quintain ; 5 qwaintan, 7 quintan(e, whinta(i)ne ; 7 quinten. 0. 5 quyntyne, 6 -ine, 6-8 quintine, 7, 9 -in. 7. 7 quintel(l, -al, -il. [a. OF. quintaine, -tene, -tine, etc. (see Godef.) = Prov., It. quintana, med.L. quintana, -tena ; usually re- garded as identical with L. quintana the market and business-place of a camp (f. quintus fifth, sc. maniple), on the supposition that military exercises A stout post or may have been practised there.] plank, or some object mounted on such a support, set up as a mark to be tilted at with lances or poles, or thrown at with darts, as an exercise of skill for horsemen or footmen ; also, the exercise or sport of tilting, etc. at such a mark. The actual form of the quintain, and the object of the sport, varied considerably. In some cases the or block post had to be struck so as to break the lance ; in others tl quintain consisted of a revolving figure, or a bar weigntcU with a sand-bag, which swung round and struck the unskilful tiller. In the middle age., tilling at the quintain was a QUINTAN. common knightly exercise ; in the ij-iSth c. it is mentioned as a favourite country sport at weddings. [a 1259 MATTH. PARIS Cron. Maj. (Rolls) V. 367 Eodem tempore (an. I253)juvenes Londinenses, statute pavone pro bravio, ad stadium quod quintena vulgariter dicitur, vires proprias et equorum cursus sunt expert!.] o. c 1400 Dt'str. Troy 1627 Somur qwenes and qwaintans, & o^er qwaint gamnes. c 1450 Merlin 133 After mete was the quyntayne reysed. c 1530 LD. BURNERS A rth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 530 Than Hector caused a faire quintayne to be pyght vp in the myddes of the : cyte and tlierat ran these yonge knyghtes, brekynge and sheueringe of theyr speres. 1611 COTGR., Quintaine, a Quintane (or Whlntane) for day there is to be a Carousel, viz. Running at the Quintain and the Ring. 1727-41 CHAMBERS Cycl. s. v., The custom is still retained in Shropshire, and some other counties, among the nuptial solemnities. He that breaks most poles against the quintain, has the prize. 1814 SCOTT Chivalry (1874) 26 Making him ride a career against a wooden figure holding a buckler called a quintaine. 1808 Westm. Gaz. 26 July 10/1 This quintain [at Offham, Kent] (said to be the only surviving specimen in England). ft. 1440 Proitip. Parv. 421/1 Quyntyne, guirinarium. 1530 PALSGR. 178 Bersault, a quyntine. 1575 LANEHAM Let. (1871)21 Before the Castl-.wnear azwaz pight a cumly quintine for featz at armz. 1656 BLOUNT Glosso^r. s. v., A Quintin . . is set fast in the ground in the Highway, where the Bride and Bridegroom are to pass. 1707 HEARNE Collect. (O. H. S.) I. 334 Sports on the Sabbath amongst which the Quintine. 1885 J. PAYN Talk of Town I. 137 (Blount Glossogr. 1656). So t Quinquiplioa'tion, ' a ' making four times double (Phillips, 1678). Quinquisect, variant of QUINQUESECT. Qui-nquity. rare 1 , [f. L. quinque + -ITY : cf. F. quinquinitie (Littr^).] A set of five things. 1849 tr - Hamilton's Fairy Tales (Bohn) 129 She.. was composed of nothing but qumquities ; for she had five arms, five legs [etc.]. Quinquivalent (kwinkwi'valent), a. Chcm. [f. L. quinqui- five- + valent as in equivalent, quadrivalent.} Capable of combining with five univalent atoms ; pentavalent. 1877 WATTS Fownes Chem. 1. 256 Quinquivalent elements, or Pentads. 1880 CLEMINSHAW Wurtz' A torn. Th. 229 It is quinquivalent in chloric acid. 1885 REMSEN Org. Chem. (1888) 209 In contact with certain substances it [the nitrogen] becomes quinquivalent. t Quinse, v. Obs. rare. Also 6 cuinse, kinse. [Origin obscure. The form cuinse, cited by Halliwell from the Bk. of Hunting 1586, may be a misprint : the Bk. St. Albans gives ' A Plouer Mynsed ' as the proper term.] To cut, carve. or m wining Quailes. [1803 SALA Capt. Dangerous 111. i. o, I.. succeeded in Quincing his face as neatly as a housewife would slice Fruit for a Devonshire Squab Pie.] t Quinsell. Obs. rare . Also 6 -zell. [ad. obs. F. guinsal (Godef.), or It. guinzaglio rein, leash.] A horse-rein. 1598 FLORID, Guinzaglio, . . among riders a long rayne of 1680 COTTON Compl. Gamester 59 A Quart leather called a quinzell. 16x1 COTGR., Dillon, a Quinsell, is a sequence of four Cards, a Quint of five. Ibid. 60 You must reckon for every . . Quart four, but for a Quint fifteen. 1719 R. SEYMOUR Court Gamester 76 Quint or Quinze, fifteen, though by a Corruption of Pronunciation we call it Kent. 18*6 Miss MITFORD Village Ser. n. (1863) 342 Never dealt the right number of cards.. did not know a quart from a quint. 1877 SIR S. NOKTHCOTE in Life (1890) I. i. 3 note, He got the point and also two quints, and thus a repique. b. Quint major, the ace, king, queen, knave and ten of a suit. Quint minor, the five cards from the knave to the seven. 1650 Shuffling, Cutting fs Deal. 3 Two Quint Minors will winthegame. 1663 DRYDEN USiMGallantn.i.'Wks. 1882 II. 84 Zounds, the rogue has a quint-major. 1720 R. SEYMOUR Compl. Gamester i. 93 He who.. has a in his Quint-Major Hand, .cuts the other off from counting any inferior Quint, Quart or Tierce. 1860 Bohn'sHand-bk. Games It. 44 Suppose you have ace .. with a quint-major of another suit. 187^3 'CAVENDISH ' Piquet 34 The elder hand, when calling his sequence, names it thus : 'A ' quint minor [etc.]. f2. trans/. A set of five persons. 06s. rare 1 . 1678 BUTLER Hud. in. ii. 1541 Since the State has made a Quint Of Generals, he's listed in't. Quint, sb.z, abbrev. of QUINTET 3. 1807 Daily News 8 June 9/4 Belts was obliged to stop, the chain of his pacing quint having given way. 1 Quint, a. rare , [ad. L. : quint-us see QUINT ji. 1 ] Quinary. 1881 A. H. KEANE in Nature XXIII. 220 They often still retain the old quint system, .in the Oceanic area now mostly replaced by the decimal. Quint-, erroneously used in combs, in place of QUINQTJ(E)-, as quintangular,quintennial, -^quintpartite. (Cf. QUINTI-.) 1687 Good Advice 52 The Indenture will at least - be, quint pertite, and Parties are not so mortal as Men. 1787 M. CUTLER in Life, Jrnls. ff Corr. (1888) I. 206 Large timbers, laid . . so as to make the form of the wells quintangular. 1871 Daily News 14 Aug., A system of annual, triennial, or quintennial Parliaments. 1894 Westm. Gaz. That ancient game 5 Apr. 2/1 The Quintangular Tournament which followed this event. the quintin. Y. 1617 MINSHEU Dvctor, A Quintaine, or (Juinlell, a game in request at marriages, when Jac and Tom, Die, Hob, and Will, striue for the gay garland. 1644 QUARLES Sheph. Orac. vi, Harmless sports.. And ceremonious Quin. tils, that belongs To Shepheard's rural mirth. _ 1677 PLOT Oxfordsh. 200 Running at the Quinten, ..or Quintel. b. trans/. o^Jig. 1598 BP. HALL Sat. iv. iv. 32 Paune thou no gloue..Nor make thy Quintaine others armed head. 1600 SHAKS. A. y. L. i. il. 263 That which here stands vp Is but a quintine, a meere liuelesse blocke. 1641 EARL MONM. tr. Biondi's Civil Warres l. 20 Imagining himself to bee the only quintan those lances addressed themselves against. 1694 S. JOHNSON Notes Past. Let. Bp. Burnet \. 98 [It] was afterwards set up by it self for a Countrey Quintin, to be thrown at. by all the Loyal Sparks of the Nation. c. attrib., as quintain-knight, -post. 1575 LANEHAM Let. (1871) 46 Her quintine knights, & proper bickerings of the Couentree men. 1857 TROLLOPE Barchester T. III. 31 The quintain post stood .. before him. Hence f Qui'ntaining, riding at the quintain. '575 LANEHAM Let. (1871) 24 Theez ryderz .. leaft thear quintining, and ran one at anoother. t Quintain-. Obs. rare 1 , [f. L. quint- fifth, after quatrain.] A stanza of five'lines a ; cinquain. 1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie II. x[i]. (Arb.) 102 This is in a stafle of . . ten verses : whereas without a band in the middle, it would seeme..two quintaines. Quintain 3; see QDINTIN. Quintal (kwi-ntal),krntal,ke - ntle. Forms: a. 6 quintals, 6-7 quintall, 7 -tell, 5- quintal. 0. 5 //. kyntawes, 5-6 kyntal(l, 6 -tayl, 6-7 kintall, 6 kintal ; 6-7 kentall, 7 -tal, 9 kentle. [a. OF. quintal (i3th c.), pi. quinlaus, Sp. and Pg. quintal, It. quintals, med.L. quintals (-allus}, quinlile, ad. Arab, : qintdr see KANTAB.] a. A weight of one hundred pounds ; a hundredweight (i 1 2 Ibs.). b. In the metric system : A weight of 100 kilograms. o. c 1470 in Si. Bk. Exchet). (Rolls) II. 153 Of eche quintal of balayn, iiij d. 1555 EDEN Decadesi\T, Two or more qum- tales of powder. 1580 HOLLYBAND Treat. Fr. Tone, Betweene the quintall .. of Englande to that of Fraunce, there is foure poundes lost. 1613 PURCHAS i. Pilgrimage 608 ym. Ihey draw yearely eight thousand quintals of Quick-silver. 1691 LUTTRELL Brief Rel. (1857) II- 627 Some French privateers have taken 3 or 4 English ships, with 15,000 quintals of fish. 1731 LEDIARD Sethos II. vn. 26 Elephants teeth so large that those of one elephant weigh two quintals. l85 J. NICHOLSON Operat. Mechanic 761 A quintal of the ore is put into a retort. 1873 R" SK!N ?*" clav - xxx -
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QUADROON. 1825 T. THOMSON isf Trine
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QUAERE. quaere, .as to the reason f
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QUAIL. losing heart, etc. 1549 COVE
Page 15 and 16: QUAKE. It appears, however, from a
Page 17 and 18: QUALIFY. 1549 LATIMER tth Serm. Edw
Page 19 and 20: QUALM. qu- t fhualm (MIIG. qualm an
Page 21 and 22: QUANTITY. 1668 WILKINS Real Char. i
Page 23 and 24: QUARREL. bodye. 1871 WISE ffe-.u Fo
Page 25 and 26: QUARRY. 1647 FAXSHAU-E tr. Pastor F
Page 27 and 28: QUARTER. 27 QUARTER. Washington* (1
Page 29 and 30: QUARTER. "quarter carrier of that h
Page 31 and 32: QUARTERAGE. 12. intr. Of the moon:
Page 33 and 34: QUARTER-PIECE. tan, dial wartern, 6
Page 35 and 36: QUASHEE. quashed all farther proced
Page 37 and 38: \ QUATBEBLE. Hence Qnatre-crested a
Page 39 and 40: QUEBRACHO. queasy stomachs. 1889 C.
Page 41 and 42: QUEEN. he was bought out. 1766 W. G
Page 43 and 44: QUELLING. fooo tr. Bxffas Hist. \.
Page 45 and 46: QUERCIVOROTTS. ? Obs. Qnerci'tric a
Page 47 and 48: QUEST. t Quest, sb?- Olis. [Related
Page 49 and 50: QTJESTIONATIVELY. 1653 MANTON Exf.
Page 51 and 52: QUIBBLE. 1711 ADDISON Sfcct. No. 61
Page 53 and 54: QUICK. 27. Of a curve, turn, etc. :
Page 55 and 56: QUICKEN. MARKHAM Caval. i. (1617) 5
Page 57 and 58: QUICKSILVER. N. CAEPENTEK Gtog. Del
Page 59 and 60: QUIET. SHELLEV A lastor 393 A smoot
Page 61 and 62: QITILL. perforce thy Doric quill. 1
Page 63 and 64: QUILTER. 1659 TORRMNO, Borrevolment
Page 65: QUININE. Quinine (kwinz'n, -ai-n, U
Page 69 and 70: QUINTUPLET. 1816 SOUTHEY in Q. Rev.
Page 71 and 72: QUIRT. laid his quirt to the flanks
Page 73 and 74: QUTTCLAIMANCE. 2. To renounce, resi
Page 75 and 76: QUIVERING. quivering of the lip. 18
Page 77 and 78: QUOIN. d. Build. The key-stone, or
Page 79 and 80: QUOTE. author, etc.). 1787 BUHNS Ex
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