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- English Word Quinqueviri Definition of Quinquevir
- English Word Quinquevirs Definition of Quinquevir
- English Word Quinquina Definition Peruvian bark.
- English Word Quinquivalent Definition Same as Pentavalent.
- English Word Quinsy Definition An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.
- English Word Quint Definition A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
- English Word Quint Definition The interval of a fifth.
- English Word Quintain Definition An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.
- English Word Quintal Definition A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental.
- English Word Quintal Definition A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.
- English Word Quintan Definition Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
- English Word Quintan Definition An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
- English Word Quintel Definition See Quintain.
- English Word Quintessence Definition The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
- English Word Quintessence Definition Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
- English Word Quintessence Definition To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
- English Word Quintessential Definition Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.
- English Word Quintet Definition Alt. of Quintette
- English Word Quintette Definition A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.
- English Word Quintic Definition Of the fifth degree or order.