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Consisting of five parts.

A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.

A word of five syllables.

Having five valves, as a pericarp.

One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.

Peruvian bark.

Same as Pentavalent.

panied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.

A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.

An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel. [Written also quintin.]

A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental. [Sometimes written and pronounced kentle.]

he fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. -- n. (Med.)

See Quintain.

ted essence. Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep. Milton.

Of the nature of a quintessence; purest. "Quintessential extract of mediocrity." G. Eliot.

A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.

Of the fifth degree or order. -- n. (Alg.)

The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72º. Hutton.

According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.…

See Quintain.