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The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.

A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

The off-spring of an octoroon and a white person.

Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold. Quintuple time (Mus.), a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.

The same as Quinquenerved.

A collection or combination of five of a kind.

The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning. [Written also quinzain.]

A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.

One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.

in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

A coin. See Sequin. Shak.

Topollute. [Obs.] Skelton.

Defilement. [Obs.]

See Colocynth. Shak.

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

See Equine. "An equinal shape." Heywood.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a horse. The shoulders, body, things, and mane are equine; the head completely bovine. Sir J. Barrow.

Glanders.