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   quaint
         adj 1: strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint
                  dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most
                  foreign of American cities"
         2: very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character
            or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill
            which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty;
            "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a
            quaint sense of humor"
         3: attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);
            "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof
            supporting old-time chimney pots" [syn: {old-time}, {quaint},
            {olde worlde}]

English Dictionary: quint by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quint
n
  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe]
  2. one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
    Synonym(s): quintuplet, quint, quin
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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quannet \Quan"net\, n.
      A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used
      like a plane.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quant \Quant\, n.
      A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it
      from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.}

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Queenhood \Queen"hood\, n.
      The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness.
      --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Queint \Queint\, a.
      See {Quaint}. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Queint \Queint\, obs.
      imp. & p. p. of {Quench}. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quinate \Qui"nate\, n. (Chem.)
      A salt of quinic acid. [Written also {kinate}.]

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]:
   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)
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