English Dictionary: quint | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quaint \Quaint\, a. [OE. queint, queynte, coint, prudent, wise, cunning, pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for gnoscere) to know. See {Know}, and cf. {Acquaint}, {Cognition}.] 1. Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs.] Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. --Chaucer. 2. Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat. [Archaic] [bd] The queynte ring.[b8] [bd] His queynte spear.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd] A shepherd young quaint.[b8] --Chapman. Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. --Spenser. To show bow quaint an orator you are. --Shak. 3. Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression. Some stroke of quaint yet simple pleasantry. --Macaulay. An old, long-faced, long-bodied servant in quaint livery. --W. Irving. Syn: {Quaint}, {Odd}, {Antique}. Usage: Antique is applied to that which has come down from the ancients, or which is made to imitate some ancient work of art. Odd implies disharmony, incongruity, or unevenness. An odd thing or person is an exception to general rules of calculation and procedure, or expectation and common experience. In the current use of quaint, the two ideas of odd and antique are combined, and the word is commonly applied to that which is pleasing by reason of both these qualities. Thus, we speak of the quaint architecture of many old buildings in London; or a quaint expression, uniting at once the antique and the fanciful. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quandy \Quan"dy\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.) The old squaw. [Local, U. S.] | |
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Quannet \Quan"net\, n. A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane. | |
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Quant \Quant\, n. A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole. | |
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Quantum \Quan"tum\, n.; pl. {Quanta}. [L., neuter of quantus how great, how much. See {Quantity},] 1. Quantity; amount. [bd]Without authenticating . . . the quantum of the charges.[b8] --Burke. 2. (Math.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary. --W. K. Clifford. {[d8]Quantum meruit}[L., as much as he merited] (Law), a count in an action grounded on a promise that the defendant would pay to the plaintiff for his service as much as he should deserve. {[d8]Quantum sufficit}, [or] {Quantum suff.} | |
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Queen \Queen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Queened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Queening}.] (Chess.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn. | |
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Queenhood \Queen"hood\, n. The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. --Tennyson. | |
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Queint \Queint\, a. See {Quaint}. [Obs.] | |
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Queint \Queint\, obs. imp. & p. p. of {Quench}. --Chaucer. | |
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Quinate \Qui"nate\, n. (Chem.) A salt of quinic acid. [Written also {kinate}.] | |
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Quinnat \Quin"nat\, n. [From the native name.] (Zo[94]l.) The California salmon ({Oncorhynchus choicha}); -- called also {chouicha}, {king salmon}, {chinnook salmon}, and {Sacramento salmon}. It is of great commercial importance. [Written also {quinnet}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quinnat \Quin"nat\, n. [From the native name.] (Zo[94]l.) The California salmon ({Oncorhynchus choicha}); -- called also {chouicha}, {king salmon}, {chinnook salmon}, and {Sacramento salmon}. It is of great commercial importance. [Written also {quinnet}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quint \Quint\, n. [F. quinte, fr. L. quintus, quinta, the fifth, quinque five. See {Five}.] 1. A set or sequence of five, as in piquet. 2. (Mus.) The interval of a fifth. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Quemado, NM Zip code(s): 87829 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Quinwood, WV (town, FIPS 66412) Location: 38.05778 N, 80.70356 W Population (1990): 559 (222 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) |