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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>QUINQUAN</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="quinquagesima"> Quinquagesima, noun, or Quinquagesima Sunday,<DL COMPACT><DD> the Sunday before the beginning of Lent; Shrove Sunday. </DL> <A NAME="quinquangular"> quinquangular, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having five angles. </DL> <A NAME="quinque"> quinque-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) five; having five; five times ______. Ex. Quinquefoliate = having five leaves. Quinquennium = a period of five years. <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, quinqu- before vowels. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="quinquefarious"> quinquefarious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> fivefold; in five rows. </DL> <A NAME="quinquefid"> quinquefid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> split into five parts or lobes. </DL> <A NAME="quinquefoliate"> quinquefoliate, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having five leaves or leaflets. </DL> <A NAME="quinquefoliolate"> quinquefoliolate, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having five leaflets; quinate. </DL> <A NAME="quinquelocular"> quinquelocular, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having five compartments. </DL> <A NAME="quinquenniad"> quinquenniad, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a period of five years; quinquennium. </DL> <A NAME="quinquennial"> quinquennial, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. occurring every five years. 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). <DD> 2. of or for five years. <DD>noun 1. something that occurs every five years. <DD> 2. something lasting five years. adv. quinquennially. </DL> <A NAME="quinquennium"> quinquennium, noun, pl. -quennia.<DL COMPACT><DD> a period of five years. </DL> <A NAME="quinquepartite"> quinquepartite, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> divided into or consisting of five parts. </DL> <A NAME="quinquereme"> quinquereme, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a galley with five tiers of oars. </DL> <A NAME="quinquevalence"> quinquevalence, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the condition of having a valence of five; pentavalence. <DD> 2. the condition of having five different valences. </DL> <A NAME="quinquevalency"> quinquevalency, noun. =quinquevalence.</DL> <A NAME="quinquevalent"> quinquevalent, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having a valence of five; pentavalent. <DD> 2. having five different valences. </DL> <A NAME="quinquivalent"> quinquivalent, adjective. =quinquevalent.</DL> <A NAME="quinsy"> quinsy, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> tonsillitis with pus; very sore throat with an abscess in the tonsils; peritonsillar abscess. </DL> <A NAME="quint"> quint (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a quintuplet. </DL> <A NAME="quint"> quint (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a set or sequence of five, such as in piquet. <DD> 2. (Music.) a fifth. </DL> <A NAME="quinta"> quinta, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a country house or villa in Spain and Latin America. Ex. ... his presidential quinta in suburban Olivos (Time). </DL> <A NAME="quintain"> quintain, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the Middle Ages: <DD> 1. a post set up as a mark to be tilted at. <DD> 2. the exercise of tilting at a target. </DL> <A NAME="quintal"> quintal, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a hundredweight. In the United States, a quintal equals 100 pounds; in Great Britain, 112 pounds. <DD> 2. a unit of mass in the metric system equal to 100 kilograms, or 220.46 pounds avoirdupois. Ex. A million quintals of wheat ... and unspecified quantities of sugar and potatoes will be distributed (New York Times). <DD> (Abbr:) ql. </DL> <A NAME="quintan"> quintan, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. recurring every fifth day by inclusive count. <DD>noun a fever or ague with three days between attacks. </DL> <A NAME="quinte"> quinte, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the fifth in a series of eight parries. </DL> <A NAME="quintessence"> quintessence, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the purest form of some quality; pure essence. (SYN) pith. <DD> 2. the most perfect example of something. Ex. Her costume was the quintessence of good taste and style. <DD> 3. (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"> quintessential, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the nature of a quintessence; of the purest or most perfect kind. 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). </DL> <A NAME="quintessentialize"> quintessentialize, transitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make quintessential; reduce or refine to a quintessence. </DL> <A NAME="quintessentially"> quintessentially, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a quintessential manner. Ex. He is, quintessentially, the non-organization man ... (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="quintet"> quintet or quintette, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. a group of five singers or players performing together. <DD> b. a piece of music for five voices or instruments. <DD> 2. any group of five; set of five. <DD> 3. (Informal.) a men's basketball team. </DL> <A NAME="quintic"> quintic, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) <DD>adj. of the fifth degree. Ex. a quintic equation. <DD>noun a quantity, equation, or function, of the fifth degree. </DL> <A NAME="quintile"> quintile, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1a. one of the points or marks dividing a frequency distribution into five parts, each having the same frequency. <DD> b. any one of the five parts thus formed. <DD> 2. (Astrology.) the aspect of two heavenly bodies when their longitudes differ by 72 degrees. <DD>adj. of or having to do with quintiles; being a quintile. </DL> <A NAME="quintillion"> quintillion, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (in the U.S., Canada, and France) 1 followed by 18 zeros. <DD> 2. (in Great Britain and Germany) 1 followed by 30 zeros. </DL> <A NAME="quintillionth"> quintillionth, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. last in a series of a quintillion. <DD>noun 1. the last in a series of a quintillion. <DD> 2. one of a quintillion equal parts. </DL> <A NAME="quintroon"> quintroon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person having one sixteenth Negro ancestry. </DL> <A NAME="quintuple"> quintuple, adjective, adverb, noun, verb, -pled, -pling.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. consisting of five parts; fivefold. <DD> 2. five times; five times as great. <DD>adv. five times; five times as great. <DD>noun a number or amount five times as great as another. <DD>v.t., v.i. to make or become five times as great or as numerous. 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). </DL> <A NAME="quintuplet"> quintuplet, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. one of five children born at the same time of the same mother. Ex. The birth of quintuplets is so rare that it is reported on television and in the newspapers. <DD> 2. any group or combination of five; set of five. </DL> <A NAME="quintuplicate"> quintuplicate, adjective, verb, -cated, -cating, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. fivefold; quintuple. <DD>v.t. to make fivefold; quintuple. <DD>noun one of five things, especially five copies of a document, exactly alike. expr. in quintuplicate, in five copies exactly alike. Ex. Such a person must fill out fifteen forms in quintuplicate ... showing just why he should be allowed a British bicycle (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="quinze"> quinze, 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"> quip, noun, verb, quipped, quipping.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a clever or witty saying. Ex. I am generally known as a discouragingly slow man with a quip (New Yorker). (SYN) witticism. <DD> 2. a sharp, cutting remark. 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). (SYN) sarcasm. <DD> 3. =quibble. <DD> 4. something odd or strange. <DD> 5. =knickknack. <DD>v.i. to make quips. <DD>v.t. to sneer at. </DL> <A NAME="quippish"> quippish, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. clever; witty. <DD> 2. sarcastic; cutting. Ex. The dialogue is more quippish than witty (Time). </DL> <A NAME="quipster"> quipster, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who often makes quips. </DL> <A NAME="quipu"> quipu, noun, pl. -pus.<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"> quire (1), noun, verb, quired, quiring.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. 24 or 25 sheets of paper of the same size and quality. (Abbr:) qr. <DD> 2a. (Bookbinding.) a set of four sheets folded to make eight leaves. <DD> b. to make eight leaves. <DD> c. any similar set of sheets in proper order, but before binding. <DD>v.t. to arrange in quires; fold in quires. expr. in quires, in sheets and not bound. Ex. I gave my book ... to the Heralds Office in quires (Anthony Wood). </DL> <A HREF="quirinal.dic">NEXT</A>