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quintile (kwin'til), . [< L. quintan, fifth, < quintus (kuin'tus), . [ML.,<L. qiiintiix, fifth: 
i/iiiin/ne, five, + -</<.] The aspect of planets sec I//IIH/. 1 Fn ini'dii-i-iil ninxii; the fifth voice 
when they arc distant from each of her (lie fifth or part. It either corresponded in compass to one of 
part of the zodiac, or 72. the other four, though independent, or strengthened the 
Quintillian (kwin-til'ian), 11. [< Quint'illti, il different parts in turn : hence sometimes railed MMML 
Roman female name (see def.), fern, of Quint//- QUinzam, qumzaine (kvviu /an; F. pron. kan- 
hix, dim. of quintan, fifth: sec quinlin,.'} One of zan >' " L< M E. ><<"''''. qnuiiKHiine, < OF. 
a body of Moutanists, said to have been so i and F -> <7'"*<e, the number of fifteen, a 
called from a prophetess Quintilla. fortnight, < quni:i; fifteen : see quime.] 1. In 
quintillion (kwin-til'you), . [< L. quint us, <*'> the fourteenth day after a feast-day, or 
fifth, + E. (Hi)illion.'] In the English notation, thfl fifteenth if the day of the feast is included, 
the fifth power of a million, a unit followed bv And the W/'XW'"* after that Merlyn come to courte, 
thirty ciphers; in the French notation, used and grete was the ioye the kynge made to hym 
generally in the United States, the sixth power . , *' 
2. A stanza consisting of fifteen lines. 
Compare quiir- 
quintint, 
quintine 
-me 2 .] I 
counting from the outermost. 
line. 
qulntisternal(kwin-ti-ster'nal), . [< L. quin- 
tan, fifth, + NL. sternum, sternum.] In anat., 
the fifth sterneber, succeeding the quadrister- 
nal, and corresponding to the fifth intercostal 
space. [Rare.] 
quintole (kwin'tol), n. [< It. qiiinto, < L. quin- 
tus, fifth, + -ofe.] 1. Same as quintuplet, 3. 
Compare decimole, quartole, etc. 2. A five- 
stringed variety of viol much used in France 
in the eighteenth century. See viol. 
quintroon (kwin-tron'), n. [Also quinteron; < 
Sp. quinteron, a quintroon, < L. quintus, fifth: 
see quint. Cf. quarteroon, quadroon.'] In the 
West Indies, the child of a white person by 
one who has one sixteenth part of negro 
blood. 
quintuple (kwin'tu-pl), . [= F. quintuple = 
Sp. qmntuplo = Pg. It. quintuple, < ML. "quintu- 
plus, fivefold, < L. quintus, fifth (< quinque, five), 
+ -plus, -fold. Cf. L. quintuplex, fivefold, < 
qnintus, fifth, + plicare, fold.] 1. Fivefold; 
containing five times the number or amount. 
Owing this name not only unto the quintuple number 
of trees, but the figure declaring that number. 
Sir T. Broume, Garden of Cyrus, i. 
2. In bot., divided or arranged by a rule of five ; 
fivefold Quintuple rhythm or time, in music, 
rhythm or time characterized by five beats or pulses to the 
measure. See rhythm. 
quintuple (kwin'tu-pl), v. ; pret. and pp. quin- 
teen, or as near as possible to that number with- 
out exceeding it. 
Gambling the whole morning in the Alley, and sitting 
down at night to quime and hazard at St. James's. 
Colman, Man of Business, iv. 
quip (kwip), n. [< W. chwiji, a quick turn or 
flirt, < chwipio, whip, move briskly. Cf. whip. 
Hence quib, quibble.] A smart sarcastic turn ; 
a sharp or cutting jest ; a severe retort ; a gibe. 
Psyi. Why, what's a quip? 
Manes. Wee great girders call it a short saying of a 
sharpe wit, with a bitter sense in a sweet word. 
Lyly, Alexander and Campaspe, iii. 2. 
If I sent him word again it was not well cut, he would 
send me word he cut it to please himself. This is called 
the Quip Modest Shak., As you Like it, v. 4. 79. 
Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee 
Jest, and youthful jollity, 
Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. 
Milton, L' Allegro, 1. 72. 
[Uip (kwip), v. ; pret. and pp. quipped, 
quipping. [< quip, (.] I. ' 
or sarcasms ; gibe ; scoff. 
Are you pleasant or peevish, that you quip with suche 
briefe girdes? 
Greene, Theeves Falling Out(Harl. Misc., VIII. 383). 
Ye malitious haue more minde to quip then might to 
cut Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 206. 
II. trans. To utter quips or sarcasms on; 
taunt; treat with a sarcastic retort; sneer at. 
The more he laughes, and does her closely quip, 
To see her sore lament and bite her tender lip. 
ppr. 
I. intrans. To use quips 
[* quintuple,^.! I. ^ g ee , 
fivefold. Sert #& 
r or forty years. ^ Nashe, I'ntr 
quintuple-nerved (StTptner^j; a^Same *ri& %>?*) 
as qumtuphnerved. 
quintuple-ribbed (kwiu'tu-pl-ribd), a. Same 
as quintuplinerved. 
quintuplet (kwin'tu-plet), n. [< quintuple + 
-et.~\ 1. A set of five, as of car-springs, etc. 
2. pi. Five children born at a birth. 
, F. Q., VI. vii. 44. 
One who jests or quips. 
quipper will 
p. 14. (Davies.) 
[So called because 
denoted by <?.] 'A curve of the third class, 
the left-hand member of whose equation is the 
quintie contravariant of a cubic, 
quippish (kwip'ish), a. [< quip + -ishl.~] 
Abounding in quips ; epigrammatic. [Rare.] 
a set of five, or to five corresponding parts. 
II. n. One of five things corresponding in 
every respect to one another. 
A great many duplicates, not to speak of triplicates, or 
even such a quintuplicate as that which I adduced. 
Trench, Study of Words, p. 181 
where for recording events, etc. The fringe-like 
threads were also of different colors and were knotted. 
The colors denoted sensible objects, as white for silver 
and yellow for gold, and sometimes also abstract ideas, as 
white for peace and red for war. They constituted a rude 
register of certain important facts or events, as of births, 
deaths, and marriages, the number of the population fit 
to bear arms, the quantity of stores in the government 
magazines, etc. 
I prefer Fuller's [version], as more quippish and adagy. 
Five years subsequently she gave birth to quintuplets. ", ***' ' 501 ' 
Lancet, No. 3417, p. 392. quipu (ke po or kwip o), n. [Also quippu, quipo, 
3. In music, a group of five notes to be per- t^K' < Peruv - 9TO. a knot.] A cord about 
formed in the time of three, four, or six. Also 2 feet m le "gth, tightly spun from variously col- 
quintole. Compare nonuplet, triplet, etc. ored threads, and having a number of smaller 
quintuplicate (kwin-tu'pli-kat), v. t. ; pret. and threads attached to it in the form of a fringe : 
pp. quintuplicated, ppr. quintuplicating . [< L. used m n g the ancient Peruvians and else- 
quintuplicatus, pp. of quintuplieare, (quintus, 
fifth, + plicare, fold: see plicate.] To make 
fivefold ; increase or repeat to the number of 
five, 
quintuplicate (kwin-tu'pli-kat), a. and n. [< 
L. qitintnplicatus, pp. of quintuplieare: see quin- 
tupticate^r.] I. a. Consisting of or relating to 
The mysterious science of the quipm . . . supplied 
the Peruvians with the means of communicating their 
ideas to one another, and of transmitting them to future 
generations. Preseott, Conquest of Peru, i. 4. 
Wampum and quippus are mnemonic records of the 
most elementary kind. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 18. 
quintuplication (kwin-tu-pli-ka'shon), n. [< quiquihatch (kwe'kwe-hach), . [Amer. Ind.] 
quintuplicate + -ion.'] The act or process of re- The quickhatch or wo'lverene, Gulo luscus. 
peatiug five times, or increasing to the number quiracet, . An obsolete form of cuirass. 
f five. For all their bucklers, Morions, and Quiraces 
The perceptible are evolved out of the imperceptible Were of no proofe against their peisant maces, 
elements by the process of quintuplication. Hudson, tr. of Du Bartas's Judith, v. 
,_. ,. -< c - Brit - XXIV - 119 - quirboillet, quirboillyt, . Obsolete forms of 
quintuplinerved (kwm tu-pli-nervd), a. [< cuir-bouilli. 
ML. 'Jntintuplus, fivefold,'-!- L. nenus, nerve, quircal (kwer'kal), n. A kind of marmoset. 
T -ed 2 .] In bot., having a midrib with two Sci. Amer., LV. 176. 
lateral ribs or primary nerves on each side: quire 1 (kwir), . [Early mod. E. also t//<in; 
said of palmately nerved leaves, or those ap- queer: < ME. queer, qnere, quer, queor, <T OF. 
proaohing the palmate nervation. See nerni- cuer, F. clia-ur = Pr. cor = Sp. Pg. It. corn = D. 
tinii. Also qi<ii(qiu'ii<i-i-l. i-oor = U. chor = Sw. Aw = Dan. l-or = AS. cltor 
Quirinus 
(rare), < L. rlinrux, < fir. x"l v k, a dance, chorus: 
see flionix. Cf. rluiir, a mod. spelling 'simulat- 
ing, like the mod. F. i-lm-iir, the L. spelling, but 
with pron. of quire.] 1. A body of singers; a 
chorus. 
They rise at mid-night to pray vnto their Idols, which 
they doe in Quires, as the Friers doe. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 4f>9. 
Angelick qitirett 
Sung heavenly anthems of ... victory. 
Milton, P. E., iv. 593. 
When the first low matin-chirp hath grown 
Full quire. Tenuysoti, Love and Duty. 
2. The part of a church allotted to the choris- 
ters; the choir. 
Besyde the Queer of the Chirche, at the right syde, as 
men comen dounward 16 Greces, is the place where oure 
Lord was born. Mandeville, Travels, p. 70. 
The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, 
And savage howlings till the sacred quires. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, I. 72. 
3t. A company or assembly. 
And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh. 
Shak., M. N. D., ii. 1. 55. 
quire 1 (kwir), v. i. ; pret. and pp. quired, ppr. 
quiring. [< quire 1 , n.~\ 1. To sing in concert 
or chorus; chant or sing harmoniously. 
There 'a not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, 
But in his motion like an angel sings. 
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. 
Shak., II. of V., v. 1. 62. 
2. To harmonize. 
My throat of war be turn'd, 
Which quired with my drum, into a pipe 
Small as ... the virgin voice 
That babies lulls asleep ! Shale., Cor., iil. 2. 113. 
quire 2 (kwir), n. [Early mod. E. also quier, queer, 
quere; < ME. quayer, quaier, quair, qunyre, quaer, 
cwaer (= Icel. lever, a quire, a book), < OF. 
quaier, quayer, cater, cayer, coyer, a quire (also 
a square lamp), F. cahier, a quire (six sheets), 
a copy-book, writing-book, written lectures, a 
memorial, = Pr. casern = It. quaderno, a quire, 
a copy-book, writing-book, cash-book, two fours 
at dice, < ML. quaternum, a set of four sheets of 
parchment or paper, neut. of quaternus (> OF. 
quaier, caier, etc., = OIt. quaderno, four-square), 
pi. quaterni, four at a time : see quatern. For 
OF. quaer, quaier, < L. quaternum, cf. enfer, < L. 
infernum.'] If. A set of four sheets of parch- 
ment or paper folded so as to make eight leaves : 
the ordinary unit of construction for early 
manuscripts and books. 
The quires or gatherings of which the book was formed 
generally consisted, in the earliest examples, of four 
sheets folded to make eight leaves. 
Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 144. 
2. A set of one of each of the sheets of a book 
laid in consecutive order, ready for folding. E. 
H. Knight. ty. A book. 
Go, lite! quayre, go unto my lyves quene. 
Lydgate, Black Knight, 1. 674. 
4. Twenty-four sheets of paper; the twentieth 
part of a ream In quires, in sheets, not folded or 
bound : said of printed books. 
The Imprinter to sell this Booke in Queres for two shil- 
linges and sixe pence, and not above. 
Notice in Edward Vl.'i Prayer-Book, 1549. 
Inside quires, the eighteen perfect quires of a roam of 
paper, which were protected by outer quires of imperfect 
paper, one on each side of the package. This distinction 
between outside and inside quires is noticeable now only 
in hand-made papers. Machine-made papers are of uni- 
form quality. 
quire 2 (kwir), v. t.; pret. and pp. quired, ppr. 
quiring. [< quire 2 , n.] To fold in quires, or 
with marks between quires. 
quire 3 t, An obsolete form of queer 1 . 
quirewise (kwir'wiz), adv. In printing, in sin- 
gle forms on double leaves of paper, so that the 
leaves can be quired and sewed in sections: 
in distinction from on single leaves, which have 
to be side-stitched. 
Quirinalia (kwir-i-na'li-a), n.pl. [L., neut. pi. 
of quirinalis, pertaining to Quirinus or Romu- 
lus, or to the Quirinal Hill at Rome, < Quirinug, 
a name of Romulus deified: see Quirinus.'] In 
ancient Rome, a festival in honor of Quirinus, 
celebrated on February 17th, on which day 
Romulus was said to have been translated to 
heaven. 
quirinca-pods (kwi-ring'ka-podz), . pi. [< S. 
Amer. quiriuca + 'E. pod.] The fruit-husks of 
Acacia Cavcnia, the espanillo of the Argentine 
Republic. They contain about 33 per cent, of 
tannin. 
Quirinus (kwi-ri'nus), M. [L.,< Cures, a Sabine 
town. Cf. Qvirites.'] An Italic warlike diviu- 
itv, identified with Romulus and assimilated to 
Mars. 
