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QUINTILE, in astronomy, an aspect of 
the planets, when they are seventy-two 
degrees distant from one another, or a fifth 
part of the zodiac. 
QUINTO Exactus, in law, the fifth and 
last call of a defendant who is sued to out- 
lawry; whereupon, if he appears not, he is 
by the judgment of the coroners returned 
outlawed. 
QUIRE of Paper, the quantity of twenty- 
four or twenty-five sheets. 
QUISQUALIS, in botany, a genus of 
the Decandria Monogynia class and order. 
Natural order of Veprecula:. Thymelaeae, 
Jussieu. Essential character: calyx five- 
cleft, filiform; petals five ; drupe five-cor- 
nered. There is but one species; viz. Q. 
indica, a native of the East Indies, China, 
and Cochinchina. • 
QUI tarn, in law, is part of the phrase 
quitam pro domine rege quam pro se ipso in 
lute parte sequitur; who sues as well for our 
Lord the King as himself, and denotes aii 
action for a penalty which is given in part 
to the first person who will sue. 
QUIT Rent, a small acknowledgment 
paid in money, so called, because such pay- 
ment acquitted the tenant from all other 
services and duties to the lord. It is con- 
sidered chiefly as an acknowledgment of 
tenancy and proof of copyhold. 
QUOIL, or Coil, in the sea-language, a 
rope or cable laid up round, one fack or 
turn over another, so that it may the more 
easily be stowed out of the way, and also 
run out free and smooth, without twistings 
or doublings. 
RAB 
QUOIN, or Coin, on board a ship, a 
wedge fastened on the deck close to the 
breech of the carriage of a gun, to keep it 
firm up to the ship side. Cantic quoins are 
short three legged quoins put between casks 
to keep them steady. 
Quoins, in architecture, denote the cor- 
ners of brick or stone walls. The word is 
particularly used for the stones in the cor- 
ners of brick buildings. When these stand 
out beyond the brick-work, their edges 
being chamfered oif, they are called rustic 
quoins. 
QUOITS, a kind of exercise or game 
known among the ancients under the name 
discus. 
QUORUM, a word which often occurs 
in our statutes, and is much used in com- 
missions, both of justices of the peace, and 
others, and so called from tlie words of the 
commission, quorum unum esse volumus, 
of whom we wish that A, B, &c. should be 
one. All magistrates are now of the quo- 
rum. 
QUOTIENT, in arithmetic, the number 
which arises by dividing tlie dividend by 
the divisor. 
QUO minus, in law, is the name of a writ 
of different sorts, but principally used in the 
Court of Exchequer, where it gives the title 
to the common process. 
QUO Warranto, is in nature of a writ of 
right for the King, against him who claims 
or usurps any office, franchise, or liberty, to 
inquire by what authority he supports his 
claim, in order to determine the right. 
R. 
R Or r, a liquid consonant, being the 
s seventeenth letter of our alphabet. 
Its sound is formed by a guttural extrusion 
of the breath, vibrated through the mouth, 
with a sort of quivering motion of the tongue 
drawn from the teeth, and cannulated with 
the tip a little elevated towards the palate. 
In Greek words it is frequently aspirated 
with an h after it, as in rhapsody, rhetoric, 
&c. otherwise it is always followed by a 
vowel at the beginning of words and syl- 
lables. 
Used as a numeral, R anciently stood 
for 80, and with a dash over it, thus R, 
for 80,000; but the Greek r, or p, sig- 
nified an hundred. In the prescriptions 
of physicians, R or p; stands for recipe, i. e. 
take. 
RABBETING, in carpentry, the plan- 
ning, or cutting of channels or grooves in 
boards, &c. In ship-carpentry it signifies 
the letting in of the planks of the ship into 
the keel ; which, in the rake and run of a 
ship, is hollowed away, that the planks may 
join the closer. 
RABBIT. See Lepus. 
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