<B>quinquagenarian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person 50 years old or between 50 and 60. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>50 years old or between 50 and 60. <DD><B> 2. </B>characteristic of one who is 50 years old. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquagesima">
<B>Quinquagesima, </B>noun, or <B>Quinquagesima Sunday,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Sunday before the beginning of Lent; Shrove Sunday. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquangular">
<B>quinquangular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having five angles. </DL>
<A NAME="quinque">
<B>quinque-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) five; having five; five times ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Quinquefoliate = having five leaves. Quinquennium = a period of five years.</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>quinqu-</B> before vowels. </DL>
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<A NAME="quinquefarious">
<B>quinquefarious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> fivefold; in five rows. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquefid">
<B>quinquefid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> split into five parts or lobes. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquefoliate">
<B>quinquefoliate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having five leaves or leaflets. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquefoliolate">
<B>quinquefoliolate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having five leaflets; quinate. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquelocular">
<B>quinquelocular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having five compartments. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquenniad">
<B>quinquenniad, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a period of five years; quinquennium. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquennial">
<B>quinquennial, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>occurring every five years. <BR> <I>Ex. A number of the permanent commissions of the congress, bodies whose work goes on in between the quinquennial meetings, read and debated separately (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or for five years. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>something that occurs every five years. <DD><B> 2. </B>something lasting five years. adv. <B>quinquennially.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="quinquennium">
<B>quinquennium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-quennia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a period of five years. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquepartite">
<B>quinquepartite, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> divided into or consisting of five parts. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquereme">
<B>quinquereme, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a galley with five tiers of oars. </DL>
<A NAME="quinquevalence">
<B>quinquevalence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition of having a valence of five; pentavalence. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of having five different valences. </DL>
<B>quinsy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> tonsillitis with pus; very sore throat with an abscess in the tonsils; peritonsillar abscess. </DL>
<A NAME="quint">
<B>quint</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a quintuplet. </DL>
<A NAME="quint">
<B>quint</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a set or sequence of five, such as in piquet. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Music.) a fifth. </DL>
<A NAME="quinta">
<B>quinta, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a country house or villa in Spain and Latin America. <BR> <I>Ex. ... his presidential quinta in suburban Olivos (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="quintain">
<B>quintain, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the Middle Ages: <DD><B> 1. </B>a post set up as a mark to be tilted at. <DD><B> 2. </B>the exercise of tilting at a target. </DL>
<A NAME="quintal">
<B>quintal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hundredweight. In the United States, a quintal equals 100 pounds; in Great Britain, 112 pounds. <DD><B> 2. </B>a unit of mass in the metric system equal to 100 kilograms, or 220.46 pounds avoirdupois. <BR> <I>Ex. A million quintals of wheat ... and unspecified quantities of sugar and potatoes will be distributed (New York Times).</I> <DD> (Abbr:) ql. </DL>
<A NAME="quintan">
<B>quintan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> recurring every fifth day by inclusive count. <DD><I>noun </I> a fever or ague with three days between attacks. </DL>
<A NAME="quinte">
<B>quinte, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the fifth in a series of eight parries. </DL>
<A NAME="quintessence">
<B>quintessence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the purest form of some quality; pure essence. (SYN) pith. <DD><B> 2. </B>the most perfect example of something. <BR> <I>Ex. Her costume was the quintessence of good taste and style.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(in medieval philosophy) the ether of Aristotle, a fifth element (added to earth, water, fire, and air) permeating all things and forming the substance of the heavenly bodies. </DL>
<A NAME="quintessential">
<B>quintessential, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the nature of a quintessence; of the purest or most perfect kind. <BR> <I>Ex. Costain has created what amounts to a quintessential recapture of the English novel, from Smollett to Dickens (Wall Street Journal). They don't pay sufficient attention to the quintessential requirement: that it be easy for the reader to find what he is looking for (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="quintessentialize">
<B>quintessentialize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make quintessential; reduce or refine to a quintessence. </DL>
<A NAME="quintessentially">
<B>quintessentially, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a quintessential manner. <BR> <I>Ex. He is, quintessentially, the non-organization man ... (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="quintet">
<B>quintet</B> or <B>quintette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a group of five singers or players performing together. <DD><B> b. </B>a piece of music for five voices or instruments. <DD><B> 2. </B>any group of five; set of five. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) a men's basketball team. </DL>
<A NAME="quintic">
<B>quintic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) <DD><I>adj. </I> of the fifth degree. <BR> <I>Ex. a quintic equation.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a quantity, equation, or function, of the fifth degree. </DL>
<A NAME="quintile">
<B>quintile, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>one of the points or marks dividing a frequency distribution into five parts, each having the same frequency. <DD><B> b. </B>any one of the five parts thus formed. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Astrology.) the aspect of two heavenly bodies when their longitudes differ by 72 degrees. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with quintiles; being a quintile. </DL>
<A NAME="quintillion">
<B>quintillion, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in the U.S., Canada, and France) 1 followed by 18 zeros. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in Great Britain and Germany) 1 followed by 30 zeros. </DL>
<A NAME="quintillionth">
<B>quintillionth, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> last in a series of a quintillion. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the last in a series of a quintillion. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of a quintillion equal parts. </DL>
<A NAME="quintroon">
<B>quintroon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person having one sixteenth Negro ancestry. </DL>
<A NAME="quintuple">
<B>quintuple, </B>adjective, adverb, noun, verb, <B>-pled,</B> <B>-pling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>consisting of five parts; fivefold. <DD><B> 2. </B>five times; five times as great. <DD><I>adv. </I> five times; five times as great. <DD><I>noun </I> a number or amount five times as great as another. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to make or become five times as great or as numerous. <BR> <I>Ex. He had quintupled a fortune already considerable (Henry James). He has in seventeen years of pin-wheeling brilliance quintupled the magazine's circulation (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="quintuplet">
<B>quintuplet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of five children born at the same time of the same mother. <BR> <I>Ex. The birth of quintuplets is so rare that it is reported on television and in the newspapers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any group or combination of five; set of five. </DL>
<A NAME="quintuplicate">
<B>quintuplicate, </B>adjective, verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> fivefold; quintuple. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make fivefold; quintuple. <DD><I>noun </I> one of five things, especially five copies of a document, exactly alike. <BR><I>expr. <B>in quintuplicate,</B> </I>in five copies exactly alike. <BR> <I>Ex. Such a person must fill out fifteen forms in quintuplicate ... showing just why he should be allowed a British bicycle (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="quinze">
<B>quinze, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a card game somewhat similar to twenty-one, in which the object is to score fifteen, or as near as possible to that number, without exceeding it. </DL>
<A NAME="quip">
<B>quip, </B>noun, verb, <B>quipped,</B> <B>quipping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a clever or witty saying. <BR> <I>Ex. I am generally known as a discouragingly slow man with a quip (New Yorker).</I> (SYN) witticism. <DD><B> 2. </B>a sharp, cutting remark. <BR> <I>Ex. 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 (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) sarcasm. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=quibble.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>something odd or strange. <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=knickknack.</B> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make quips. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to sneer at. </DL>
<A NAME="quippish">
<B>quippish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>clever; witty. <DD><B> 2. </B>sarcastic; cutting. <BR> <I>Ex. The dialogue is more quippish than witty (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="quipster">
<B>quipster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who often makes quips. </DL>
<A NAME="quipu">
<B>quipu, </B>noun, pl. <B>-pus.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cord with knotted strings or threads of various colors, used by the ancient Peruvians to record events, keep accounts, and send messages. </DL>
<A NAME="quire">
<B>quire</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>quired,</B> <B>quiring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>24 or 25 sheets of paper of the same size and quality. (Abbr:) qr. <DD><B> 2a. </B>(Bookbinding.) a set of four sheets folded to make eight leaves. <DD><B> b. </B>to make eight leaves. <DD><B> c. </B>any similar set of sheets in proper order, but before binding. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to arrange in quires; fold in quires. <BR><I>expr. <B>in quires,</B> </I>in sheets and not bound. <BR> <I>Ex. I gave my book ... to the Heralds Office in quires (Anthony Wood).</I> </DL>
