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QUINTUPLET.
1816 SOUTHEY in Q. Rev. XV. 538 The population of
London must at least have quintupled
since that time.
187* BUCKLE Misc. Wks. I. 468 It is stated that within
sixty years rents had quintupled.
(kwrntiaplet). [f. QUINTUPLE a.]
Quintuplet
1. A set of five things; in Mus. = QUINTOLE.
1873 H. C. BANISTER Music 13 Other irregularities, .such
as four notes for three, termed a Quadruplet ; five for four,
are arranged in quintuplets.
2. //. Five children born at a birth.
1889 Lancet No. 3417. 392/1 Five years subsequently she
gave birth to quintuplets. 1895 Aberdeen Free Press
25 Oct. 4 This is the first case of quintuplets in England.
3. A cycle for five riders ; a quintet.
1895 Westin. Gaz. 17 Oct. 7/2 The latest cycling machine
is a quintuplet. 1896 Daily Neil's 17 July 7/1 Five spun
along at a terrific pace on a quintuplet.
Quintupli-, comb, form of QUINTUPLE a., employed
in a few terms of Hot., as qui'ntuplieo'state,
-nerved, -ribbed, -veined.
1861 [see QUINTUPLE i b], 1880 GRAY Struct. Bat. _93
The appearance of a second pair of such strengthened veins
makes the venation quintuph-ribbed or quintupli-nerved.
[f. QUINTUPLE, after duplicate, quadruplicate.']
A. adj. Five times repeated ; consisting of five
things, similar parts, etc. Quintuplicate proportion:
cf. QUADRUPLICATE a. i.
1656 tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 240 The lengths
transmitted shall be to the times in which they are transmitted,
in proportion quadruplicate, quintuplicate [etc.].
B. st>. a. A set of five. b. One of a set of five
similar things.
1851 TRENCH Stud. Words vi. (1869) 229 We possess in
English a great many duplicates, not to speak of triplicates
or of such a quintuplicate as that which I adduced just now.
Quintuplica-tion. rare, [noun of action to
*quintnplicate vb. : cf. prec.]
1. The action of multiplying by five.
1674 JEAKE Arith. (1696) 24 To multiply by 5, called
Quintuplication, adjoyn a Cypher ..and take the half
thereof. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 119 The perceptible
are evolved out of the imperceptible elements by the
process of quintuplication.
2. Civil and Canon Law. A reply on behalf of
the pursuer to the defendant's quadruplication.
1860 MOTLEY Netherl. xviii. II. (1869) 376 Lord Henry's
harmless thunder was answered., by a 'Quintuplication .
t Quintuply, sb. Sc. Law. Obs. [f. QUINTUPLE,
after = duply, quadruply.] QDINTUPLICATION 2.
1663 Proc. Justiciary Court (MS.) 85 Quintuplyes. Maxwell
for the Pursuer. The Testificate forsaid proceeds [etc.].
1674 Ibid. 654 Quintuplys. Sir Andrew Birnie. That the
Defender Robert Steuart cannot pretend ignorance [etc.].
Qui'ntuply, adv. rare. [f. QUINTUPLE a. +
-LY 2 .]
In a fivefold manner.
1870 H. SPENCER Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. v. 239. 548
We may say that they [sensations] are thus characterized
by being quintuplv-clustered.
Quin.ua, variant of QUINOA.
tQui-nyie. Sc. Obs. Alsc t Qui-nyie. . ,-.-,
-see, 8 quine, qunie. [var. CUNYE, Sc. f. COIN sb.\
Sc. Obs. Also 6 quinje, -jie, 7
-see, 8 quine, qunie. [var. CUNYE, Sc. f. COIN s&.]
1. A coin. Quinyie-hottse, the mint. rare.
1506 DALRYMPLE tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot.
yin. 97 To lat
stryk a brassin quinjie. Ibid. x. 350 Onything that in his
tyme he had spendet in the Quin^ehous.
2. A corner. Quinyie-stane, corner-stone.
1588 in M'Crie Life A. Melville I. 440 That the bell and
clock be transported to the high steeple, and that the kirk
have a quinjee left at the steeple foresaid for the relief
thereof. 1734 Jrnl. fr. London to Scarborough 1-2 A
whittle that lies i' the quinyie o' the maun [=basketj.
Bartas' Judith v. 365 AU their bucklers,
Morions, and Quiraces Were of no proofe against their peisant
maces. 1596 DANETT tr. Comities (1614) 12 There were
not foure hundred of them armed with quiracies.
Quirboil(l)y, obs. form of CUIB-BOUILLI.
Quire (kwsi'j), rf. 1 Forms : a. 3 owaer, quaer,
4-5 quayer,(5 -ere,qwayer,quaier),4-6quayre,
(5 qwayre, qvayr), 5-6 qv-, quare, quair, 5-7
quaire, (6 qw-). 0. 6 quear(e, quere, 6-7
queere, 6-7 (9