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▪ I. quint, n.1|kwɪnt|
Also 6 quinte.
[a. F. quint m. (sense 1), or quinte f. (senses 2 and 3):—L. quint-us, -a, -um, ordinal to quinque five.]
1. A tax of one-fifth.
1526in Dillon Customs of Pale (1892) 83 He must paye to the kinge the vth pennie of his goods for the quinte. 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. v. 176 The payment of the quint to the officers of the crown.
2. Mus.
a. An interval of a fifth.
1865tr. Spohr's Autobiog. II. 14 Three ugly quints follow each other. 1887J. A. L. Riley Athos 406 It is not founded upon the modern system of octaves, but is a succession of similar quints.
b. (In full quint-stop.) An organ-stop which gives a tone a fifth higher than the normal.
1855E. J. Hopkins Organ xxi. 110 Some [stops] sound g on the C key..Those are called ‘fifth-sounding’ or Quint Stops. Ibid. 117 The Quint on the Pedal is almost invariably composed of stopped pipes.
▪ II. quint, n.2|kɪnt, kwɪnt|
[a. F. quinte f.: see prec. Formerly pronounced (kɛnt) or |kæ̃t|.]
1. In piquet: A sequence of five cards of the same suit, counting as fifteen.
1680Cotton Compl. Gamester 59 A Quart is a sequence of four Cards, a Quint of five. Ibid. 60 You must reckon for every..Quart four, but for a Quint fifteen. 1719R. Seymour Court Gamester 76 Quint or Quinze, fifteen, though by a Corruption of Pronunciation we call it Kent. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 342 Never dealt the right number of cards..did not know a quart from a quint. 1877Sir S. Northcote in Life (1890) I. i. 3 note, He got the point and also two quints, and thus a repique.
b. quint major, the ace, king, queen, knave and ten of a suit. quint minor, the five cards from the knave to the seven.
1659Shuffling, Cutting & Deal. 3 Two Quint Minors will win the game. 1663Dryden Wild Gallant iv. i. Wks. 1882 II. 84 Zounds, the rogue has a quint-major. 1720R. Seymour Compl. Gamester i. 93 He who..has a Quint-Major in his Hand..cuts the other off from counting any inferior Quint, Quart or Tierce. 1860Bohn's Hand-bk. Games ii. 44 Suppose you have ace..with a quint-major of another suit. 1873‘Cavendish’ Piquet 34 The elder hand, when calling his sequence, names it thus: ‘A quint minor’ [etc.].
†2. transf. A set of five persons. Obs. rare—1.
1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1541 Since the State has made a Quint Of Generals, he's listed in't.
▪ III. quint, n.3
abbrev. of quintet 3.
1897Daily News 8 June 9/4 Betts was obliged to stop, the chain of his pacing quint having given way.
▪ IV. quint, n.4 N. Amer.|kwɪnt|
[Shortened f. quintuplet n.]
= quin n.2
1934Newsweek 18 Aug. 21/1 Fed at three-hour intervals, the Dionne ‘quints’ since their birth have consumed about a beer barrel of mother's milk shipped in from Toronto and Montreal. 1972C. Buchanan Maiden xxii. 185 The five Dionne girls were hopping out of a canoe... The quints' long, long Pettijohn legs in short shorts—what legs! 1979Internat. Herald Tribune 29 May 24/7 Cecile's easy, outgoing manner..suggested she had overcome the traumas..and the sorrows that plagued the quints in younger years. 1984Miami Herald 6 Apr. 6a/1 Three days later, two separate funds..were established to help Peggy Jo Kienast care for the quints, now 14.
▪ V. quint, a. rare—1.
[ad. L. quint-us: see quint n.1]
Quinary.
1881A. H. Keane in Nature XXIII. 220 They often still retain the old quint system..in the Oceanic area now mostly replaced by the decimal. |