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quinquesyllable (kwm-kwe-sil'a-bl), . [< L. 3. ln.nrgan-liuiMiu<i, a stop giving tones a fifth quinternet, . [OF. qtiinlci'iic, :i corrupt form 
quinque, = E. //re, -f xylliibii, syllable: see syl- above the normal pitch of the digitals used. of i/niiitcrin-. i/uitcnif, a giltorn, guitar: sec i/it- 
lable.] A word of five syllables. 4. The smallest of the three varieties of viola tern, guitar.] A musical instrument of the lute 
Anything beyond a quinquesyllable is difficult to pro. 
noiince. Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, VIII. 516. 
quinquetactic (kwin-kwe-tak'tik), a. [< L. 
da bracchio. See viol. 5. The E string or family, which was one of the early forms of the 
chanterelle of a violin: probably so called modern guitar. 
_. L , . from the highest string of the lute. 6. In quinteron (kwin'te-ron), n. Same as quinti-aon. 
, = E. five, + Gr. ranrmni;, tactic : see tac- fencing, the fifth of the eight parries in sword- quintessence (kwin-tes'ens, formerly kwin'te- 
tic.]~ Having five consecutive points in com- play-. It is taught in the schools, but rarely sens), . [< ME. quintessence, < OF. (and F.) 
inon. Quinquetactic point. See tritactic point, under ll ^ ed in practice. quintessence = It. quiiilcxsciiza = ML. quintu M. 
points. quint-. [L. quintus, fifth: see quint.] A prefix sentia, fifth essence: L. quinta, fern, of quintan, 
quinquetubercular (kwin"kwe-tu-ber'ku-liir), of the names of musical instruments and of or- fifth; eaacntia, being or essence: see quint 
a. Same as quinquetuberculate. gan-stops, denoting a variety whose pitch is a 
fifth above or below that of the usual variety. 
quinta (kwin'ta), n. [Sp. Pg. quinta, a coun- 
try house.] A country house in Madeira. 
A Pasco del Molino is the best part of the town, where 
all the rich merchants reside in quintas surrounded by 
pretty gardens. Lady Brassty, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. v. 
quintad (kwin'tad), n. [< L. quintun, fifth (see 
quint), + -rtd 1 .] Same as pentad. 
[< L. quintus, 
The crowns of the lower molars are quinquetubercular. 
Amer. Naturalist, XXII. 663. 
quinquetuberculate (kwin"kwe-tu-ber'ku-lat), 
a. [< L. quinquc, = E. five, + tuberculum, tu- 
bercle : see tubercle, tuberculate.] Having five 
tubercles : as, a quinquetuberculate molar. 
quinquevalent (kwin-kwev'a-lent), a. [< L. 
qiiinque, = E. five, + E. valent.J In diem., ca- 
and essence.] 1. The fifth essence, or fifth 
body, not composed of earth, water, fire, or air ; 
the substance of the heavenly bodies, accord- 
ing to Aristotle, who seems in this matter to 
follow Pythagorean doctrine. The quintessence 
was situated above the four terrestrial elements, and was 
naturally bright and incorruptible, and endowed with a 
circular motion. 
pable of being combined with or exchanged quintadena (kwiu-ta-de'na), n. _ 
for five hydrogen atoms; having an equiva- fifth, + -ad-enm, an arbitrary termination.] In 
lence of five 
quinquevalve (kwin'kwe-valv), 
que, = E. Jive, + NL. valva, door 
lint., having five valves, as a pericarp 
organ-building, a stop having small stopped 
: - the tones of which the second 
decidedly prominent. 
[Formerly also quinten, 
, a. [< L. quin- pipes of metal in the tc 
or (valve) ] In harmonic or twelfth is 
._, _ ,-jricarp. quintain (kwin'tau),H. . 
quinquevalvular (kwin-kwe-val'vu-lar), a. [< quintin; < ME. quyntayne, qwaintan, < OF. quitt- 
L. quinquc, = E. five, + N"L. vatiulit, dim. of taine, cuintaine, etc., f., a quintain, F. quintaine 
ralni, valve : see valve.] Same as quinquevalvc. = Pr - It; - <juintana, < ML. quiii tiinti, a quintain, 
quinquevir (kwin'kwe-ver), .; pi. quinqueriri also a part of a street where carriages could pass, 
(kwin-kwev'i-ri). [L'., < quinque, = E. fire, + < L - q/iintana, a street in a camp, between the 
fifth and sixth maniples, whore were the market 
and forum of the camp, and, it is supposed, the 
place of martial exercises, etc., whence the ML. 
vir, a man.] In Horn, antiq., one of five com- 
missioners who were appointed from time to 
time under the republic as extraordinary ma- 
gistrates to carry any measure into effect, as to 
Forsothe philosophoris clepen the purest substaunce of 
manye corruptible thingis elementid quinta estencia. 
Book of Quinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 2. 
Paracelsus . . . tells us ... the lungs consume part of 
the air, and proscribe the rest. So that ... it seems we 
may suppose that there is in the air a little vital quin- 
tessence (if I may so call it), which serves to the refresh- 
ment and restauration of our vital spirits, for which use 
the grosser and incomparably greater part of the air being 
unserviceable, it need not seem strange that an animal 
stands in need of almost incessantly drawing in fresh air. 
Boyle, New Experiments touching the Spring of the Air, 
' [Exp. xli. 1. 
Hence 2. An extract from anything, contain- 
ing its virtues or most essential part in a small 
quantity ; pure and concentrated essence ; the 
best and purest part of a thing; in old chem., 
JC*^o v/l Ullbl Lloil CA^XViloco, ClU., WJlellUtf LUC 1XLU. . , *. a 'm 
gisirat.es 10 carry any measure into ertect, as to > 5 fern. (sc. via) of quintanus, fifth : see quin- an alcoholic tincture or essence often made by 
provide relief /time of public distress/to di- .]_ 1. A figure , or Bother object to be tilted at. Kt^JSO^Sf^Sf^ m th6 
rect the establishment of a colony, or to pro- 
vide for the repair of fortifications. 
quinqui-. For words so erroneously spelled, 
see quinque-. 
quinquina (kin'ki-ua), n. Same as quinaquina. 
quinquino (kin'ki-no), n. [S. Amer.] A tree, 
Huroxylon Pereiree, the source of the balsam 
of Peru. It is found on a strip along the coast of San 
Salvador called the Balsam Coast. It has a height of 
60 feet, branching at 8 or 10 feet from the ground ; the 
leaves are pinnate, 6 or 8 inches long, the flowers numer- 
ous in erect racemes, the pods 8 or 4 inches long, narrow 
at the base, broadening and winged above, containing one 
seed. The balsam Is obtained by the natives from the 
trunk by a process of beating and incision. It was first 
exported by the way of Peru, whence its name. The fruit 
also yields to cold pressure a valuable white balsam, and di- 
gested In rum furnishes a medicine, balsamito, but neither 
of these is an article of commerce. See Myroxylon, and 
balsam of Peru (under balsam). 
quinsy (kwiu'zi), . [Formerly also qiiinsey, 
quinsy, quincy (also quinancy); reduced from 
early squincy, 'squiusy, squinsie, a contracted 
form of squiuaiicy, < OF. squinancie, squinance, 
esquinance, F. esquinancie (cf. also OF. quina- 
tique, quinatike) = Sp. csquiuaucia = Pg. esqui- 
nencia = It. schinanzia, quinsy, with prosthetic 
s, < LL. cynanche, < Gr. nvvd-yxv, a kind of sore 
throat, also a dog-collar, lit. ' dog-throttling,' < 
ni'uv (KVV-), dog, + ayxnv, choke, throttle. Cf. 
cynanche.] Tonsillitis; specifically, a deep sup- 
purative tonsillitis. 
It was constructed in various ways. A common form in 
England consisted of an upright post, on the top of which 
(Froi 
Movable Quintain, uth century. 
I Stmtt's " Sports and Pastimes of the People of England.") 
was a horizontal bar turning on a pivot; to one end of 
sun's heat, and always at a gentle heat. 
To comforte the lierte, putte yn oure S entente, the S es- 
sence of gold and of peerl, and he schal be delyuerid there- 
of [of venom] and be hool. 
Book of Quinte Essence (ed. Kurnivall), p. 23. 
More precious I do holde 
Slaltes pure quintessence then king Harries golde. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 61. 
The quintessence of every sprite 
Heaven would in little show. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 147. 
The large scarlet anemone outshone even the poppy, 
whose color here is the quintessence of flame. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 116. 
Pure (juintsssencfS of precious oils 
In hollow'd moons of gems. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
this a sandbag was attached, to the other a broad board: quintessence (kwiu-tes'ens, formerly kwin'te- 
and it was a trial of skill to strike or tilt at the broad end ^,,0 ,. /. nrp t o m l nn nti' 
with a lance, and pass on before the bag of sand could ' .'.' .' 1 e h , PP ' * 
1 pasi ___ _. _ 
whirl round and strike the filter on the back. 
My better parts 
Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up 
Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block. 
Shak., As you Like it, i. 2. 263. 
The ifiiinlitiii, in its original state was not confined to 
the exercise of young warriors on horseback ; it was an 
object of practice for them on foot, in order to acquire 
strength and skill in assaulting an enemy with their 
swords, spears, and battle-axes. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 183. 
2. The game or exercise of tilting at the quin- 
tain. 
In steps that insolent insulter, 
The cruell Quincy, leaping like a Vulture 
At Adams throat. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Furies, quintal (kwin'tal), 
Why don't you speak out? not stand croaking like a 
frog in a quinsy! Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 2. 
quinsy-berry (kwin'zi-ber"i), n. The black cur- 
rant, Ribes nigrum, of the northern Old World, 
often planted. Its berries are eaten, and a jelly 
of them is a long-known popular remedy for 
quinsy and sore throat. 
quinsywort (kwiu'zi-wert), n. [Formerly also 
quinancy-wort, squinancy-wort ; < quinsy + 
ivorfl.] A small trailing European herb, Aspc- 
Somur qwenes, and mraintans, & other qwaint gaumeg 
There foundyn was first, & yet ben forthe haunted. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1627. 
quintessenced, ppr. 
<[Hiiit<xsc)iring. [< quintessence, .] To extract 
as a quintessence; reduce to a quintessence. 
[Rare.] 
If the whole world were quintessenced into one perfume, 
it could not yield so fragrant a smell. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 434. 
It is truth quintessenced and raised to the highest power. 
Quoted in Littell's Living Age, CLXXV. 113. 
quintessential (kwin-te-sen'shal), a. [< quin- 
tessence (ML. quinta cssentia) + -al.] Consist- 
ing of quintessence ; of the nature of quintes- 
sence. 
Here first are born the spirits animal, 
Whose matter, almost immaterial, 
Resembles heaven's matter i/uintrsffntial. 
P. Fletcher, Purple Island, v. 
Our states, I have always contended, our various phases, 
have to be passed through, and there is no disgrace in it 
so long as they do not levy toll on the quintessential, the 
spiritual element G. Meredith, The Egoist, xiv. 
I give this jewel to thee, richly worth 
A quintal or an hundred-weight of gold. 
. f . , f . Chapman, Blind Beggar of Alexandria. 
rula cynanchica, of the Bubiaceee, having nar- quintan (kwin'tan), a. and n. [< L. quintanus, 
row leaves whorled in fours, and small, clus- pertaining to th"e fifth, < quintus, fifth, < ^win- 
tered, nearly white flowers. It was once reputed effl- que = E. five : see five. Cf. quintain] I a 
cacious as a gargle in quinsy and sore throat, whence the Occurrine 1 ' or recurrine 1 everv fifth Hav Wnth 
common and the specific names. Also qiiinsii-woodruf ? y X,, 
quint (kwint), n. [< F. quinte (= Sp^Pglt 1 ays bem S counted, as on Sunday and Thui-s- 
quinta),f., a fifth part, a fifth (in music, etc.), da as ' a " to " ? ever ' 
n. [Also kintal, and for- 
merly kental, kintle, early mod. E. kyntayl; < F. 
quintal = It. qitintale, < Sp. Pg. quintal, < AT. 
qintar, a weight of one hundred pounds, < L. 
centum, a hundred: see cent and cantor, cantu- quintessentialize (kwin-te-sen'shal-iz), v. t. ; 
ra.] A weight of 100 pounds. The old French pret. and pp. qtiintesscntialized, ppr'.' quintessen- 
quintal was equl to 100 livres, or nearly 108 pounds avoir- 
dupois. The quintal mttrique, or modern quintal, is 100 
kilograms, or about 220 pounds avoirdupois. 
"tiali:inij. [< quintessential + -ise.] ^To reduce 
to a quintessence; exhibit in the highest or 
quintessential form. [Rare.] 
Their [the Jews'] national egotism, quintessentializcd in 
the prophets, was especially sympathetic with the per- 
sonal egotism of Milton. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 273. 
[= F. quin- 
also quint, m., a fifth < quint (= Sp. Pg. It "t .*: An 
quinto), fifth, < L. quintus, fifth, } qni J C , g five : SJJ* "T^SL^&; 
see five.] 1. A set or sequence of five, as in Q^t|fb 1 
For since the State has made a quint 
Of generals, he 's listed in 't. 
S ~ 
2. In music, same as 
As the melody proceeded there resulted a succession of 
parallel quarts, quints, and octaves, which would be in- 
tolerable to modern ears. 
The Academy, Jan. 18, 1890, p. 51. quilltcilt, H. An obsolete form of quintain. 
ment for five solo parts, either vocal or instru- 
mental. Instrumental i 
jfr" ' 7 *; mental, instrumental quintets are essentially 
,*tA An . ^termittent *?ver the paroxysms similar to quartets . (6) 1 company of five JSg. 
ers or players who perform quintets, 
quintette (kwin-tet'6), n. [It.] Same as quin- 
'cinquefoil, as if < OF. 'quint, fifth, + 'foil, leaf.] qui ' n tfoil (kwint'foil), n. See quintefoil. 
ter. s&mensctnquefotl. quintic (kwin'tik), a. and w. [< L. quinttig, fifth 
fX^'o ( X ' (1U1 ? t , ent (kwm tel )' "' An erroneous form of (f|ee ,, + .^ j Of L the ^ fth dp ' 
fiftn, 2. qutnl.nn. --Quintic equation. See equalbm.- Ql ' 
None crowns the cup 
Of wassaile now, or sets the qirinteU up. 
Herrick, A Pastorall sung to the King. 
-Quintic equation. See equation. Quintic symme- 
try, symmetry arising from the possibility of remicing a 
quintit: to the form ax~* -[- by~\ 
II. H. An algebraic function of the fifth de- 
gree. 
