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that they were a nation of women who had no men among 

 tlicm. 



QUINQUEPARTITE Lkaf, among liohvnjs. See 



LuAf. 



QUINQUEPRIMI, among the Romans, tlic live prin- 

 cipal men in the lenate of evcrv municipal town. 



QUINQUEREMIS, in the Naval ylrcbileaure of the 

 Ancients, a name given to a galley which had five rows of 

 oars. They divided their velfels in general into monocrota 

 and polycrota : the former had only one tier of rowers ; 

 the latter had feveral tiers of them, from two or three, 

 up to twenty, thirty, or even forty ; for fnch a vedel 

 we have an account of in the time of Philopater, which 

 required no lefs than four thoufand men to row it. See 



Poi.YCItOTA. 



QUINQUERTIONES, among the Romans, an appel- 

 lation given to thofc who had gained the vidlory in the qitin- 

 qucrlhim, or pentathhm. 



QUINQUERTIUM was the fame with the Grecian 

 pentathlon, compreliending the hve exerciies of running, leap- 

 ing, throwing, dartuig, and wrellling. See Pentathlon. 



QUINQUE VIR, frequently wrote V. VIR, a Roman 

 magiftratc, who had four colleagues joined with him in the 

 fame funttion. 



There were various kinds of officers thus denominated. 

 Pomponius the lawyer mentions quinqueviri on this and on 

 that fide of the Tiber, eftablilhed for the adminlllration of 

 julUce in the night-time, in lieu of the ordinary magiltrates, 

 who were not judged proper to run up and down the llreets 

 in the dark. 



Rofinus tells us, that they were fometimes the quinqueviri 

 who conducted the colonies, and divided the lands aliigned 

 to them among the feveral families. 



Sometimes the epulones were five in number ; in which 

 cafe they were called quinqueviri. See Epulo. 



QUINQUEVIRI MoN'ETARn, were officers firft erefted 

 under the cnnfulate of Valerius Poplicola, to moderate the 

 exceffive ufury, or interell, which creditors or bankers ufed 

 to exaft from the people. 



QUINQUINA. See Cortex Perumanus. 



QIUNSEY, fometimes written Qinnanfey, and Qiiinzy, 

 in Medicine, a corruption of the French word f/jw/Mncif, which 

 again is derived from the Greek, cynanche, xviy.yx,^, fignifying 

 fore -throat, or inflammation and tumour of the internal fauces. 

 The term is applied generally to inflammations of llie throat, 

 but more particularly to the acute inflammation of the tonfils. 

 A tonfil, enlarged from inflammation, is alio emphatically 

 called a quinfey. See CYVAScnK ton/tl/aris. 



Ql'ixsev, among domeftic animals of the live-flock fort, 

 is an afFeftion about the throat and breafl, which often at- 

 tacks them, and which is very obilinate and troublefome. 

 In horfes it is ufually called anticor. 



QUINSIEME, or QuiNZiE.ME, in our old Lti-w Booh. 

 See Fifteenth. 



QUINSIGAMOND, or Long PorJ, in Geography, a 

 lake of Mailachufetts, between Worcefler and Shrewfbury. 

 This is a beautiful lake, in form of a crefcent, about five 

 miles long, and from 60 to 100 rods broad. It is inter- 

 fered with a number of iflets, one of which is upwards of 

 200 acres in extent. 



QUINSON, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Lower Alps ; 25 miles S.S.W. of Digne. 



QUINT, a fequence of five cards of the fame colour. 

 See Sequence. 



QUINTA, Ital. QuiNTE, Fr. (See Fifth and Dia- 

 PENTE. ) The chord of the ° in thorough-bafe is refolved 

 two ways : firft, by the bafe rifing one note, and the lowcflr 



treble note defccnding ; lecondly, by the Iiighell note of 

 tlie cljord rifing, and the lowelt remaining Itationary, when 

 the difcord i:i refolved upwards. This is what Raraeau calls 

 /(■ double emploi cle la lijj-mance. 



QfiNTA Pars, in old madrigals, a 5th vocal part, com- 

 pofcd of the refufe of the other fouri 



Qi:iNTA F./finl'ui. See Quintkssknce. 



QUINTAIN, Ql'iNTANA, in ylncient Cifloms, a poft, 

 or pillar, driven into the ground, with a buckler fixed to it, 

 for the performance of military cxercifes on horfeback, the 

 throwing of darts, breaking of lances, &c. 



Mdtth. Paris defcribes the quintain as a kind of mark, 

 formed like a man from the navel upwards, holding a fhield 

 in his left hand, and in his right a fword or ftick ; the 

 whole fo fitted as to turn round on its foot, and fo as that 

 a cavalier running a-tilt againft it witli a lance, if he hit it in 

 the breafl, it wiiked round, and, unlefs he were very dex- 

 trous, flruck him with the fword held in the other hand. 



In otlier places, at the top of a poll, was erefted uflender 

 beam fitted to turn round a fpindle ; at one of whofe cuds 

 was a flope or flat board, and at the other a bag of fand or 

 dirt. The fport was, with a long ftaff, or wooden lance, 

 to ride a-tilt at the board, and to be either fo flcilful or lucky 

 to efcape the blow of the fand-bag. 



This fome take to be the fame with the arietum levatlo, 

 frequently prohibited in our old fynods and epifcopal 

 conftitutions. 



The cullom is ftill retained in Shropfhire, and fome other 

 counties, among the nuptial folcmnities. He that breaks 

 the moft poles againfl the quintain, has the prize ; which 

 was anciently a peacock, but is now a garland. 



Some derive the word from an ancient game called quintus ; 

 others from a man of the name of Quintus. 



The vallus and palus, mentioned in Cxfar, are taken, by 

 Vigenere, for a kind of quintam, or wooden man, fixed up 

 as an adverfary, or man of llraw, to prove one's dexterity 

 againft. 



Mention is made of this exercife in the Code, De Alea- 

 toribus, and in the Paralitles of Cujas on the fame. Juvenal 

 fpeaks of women engaging in it : 



" Aut quis non vidit vulnera pali ? ice." 



Quintain was alfo a right which the lord had to oblige 

 all the millers, watermen, and otlicr young jicople unmarried, 

 to come before his caftle every three years, and break feveral 

 lances or poles againil a poll, or wooden man, for his 

 diverfion. 



QUINTAL, in Commerce, the weight of a hundred 

 pounds. 



The quintal admits of fome difference in different places, 

 according as the pound confifts of more or fewer ounces, 

 and as the ounce is lighter or heavier. 



Thus, e. gr. the Paris quintal, or hundred, in the old 

 fyftem, yields izjlbs. at Montpelier ; and the Montpeher 

 hundred only 81 lbs. 9 oz. 18 gr. French poids de marc, or 

 881bs. avoirtlupois nearly. The quintal of Conflantinople 

 is efteemed the heavieft of all thoie ufed in the Levant : 

 it contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli ; the oke being 4 yuf- 

 droraes or chequees, or 400 drachms, and the rottolo 176 

 drachms. The quintal, or kintal, of cotton y.arn is 45 okes. 

 The quintal, or cantaro, weighs about I23flbs. avoirdupois, 

 and the oke zlbs. 13 oz. ; the rottolo, 19 ^oz. and the che- 

 quce, ll^oz. avoirdupois. The quintal is equal to ii2ilbs. 

 of Amlterdam ; I24lbs. of Venice ; and 1 60 of Leghorn. 

 The quintal of Lifbon contains 4 arrobas, the arroba 32 

 pounds, the pound, libra, or arrate, 2 marks, or 16 ounces ; 

 the ounce, 8 outavus : 13^ quintals make a ton. The 

 8 pound 



