Vocabulary : Quinquevir to Quintan

Quinquevir : One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.
Quinqueviri : of Quinquevir
Quinquevirs : of Quinquevir
Quinquina : Peruvian bark.
Quinquivalent : Same as Pentavalent.

Quinsy : An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.
Quint : A set or sequence of five, as in piquet. ;; The interval of a fifth.
Quintain : An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.
Quintal : A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental. ;; A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.
Quintan : Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. ;; An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.

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