单词 | quint |
释义 | quintn.1 1. A tax of one fifth. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > one-fifth quinta1452 fifth1557 a1452 in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. 15th Cent. (1913) 362 (MED) The Quinte of the Dymes of Clergye in the province of Canterbury is xvj m..li. 1556 Surv. Calais in Archaeologia (1893) 53 App. ii. 371 He must paye to the kinge..the vth pennie of his goods for the quinte. 1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana vi. 104 They..are a peculiar Jusidiction, paying the King his Quint or Fifth, which is reserv'd in all Grants of the Crown of Spain and Portugal. 1760 State of France 3 Quint and requint: a tax of a fifth, and the fifth part of a fifth, belonging to the king, on the sale of all land situated in and depending on his domains. 1833 H. C. Todd Notes on Canada (1835) 86 When a seigniory is sold, one fifth, called the King's quints, is alienated to the crown. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. v. 176 The payment of the quint to the officers of the crown. 1905 Ontario Bureau Arch. Rep. III. xlix A form of succession duty insured to the Crown, known as quint, amounting to one fifth of the value of the fief, payable on every mutation of ownership by sale or inheritance. 1946 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 6 18 The gold producer must give the government the quint, which in practice amounted to one quarter rather than one fifth of the dust he had collected. 1996 M. Kochan & D. Littman in B. Ye'or Decline Eastern Christianity under Islam ix. 237 Young Christian children abducted during razzias, allocated within the quint of war booty.., were reduced to slavery and converted to Islam. 2. Music. a. = fifth n. 2. Now rare and historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > fifth fifth1597 pentachord1694 quint1757 1757 Explan. Ocular Harpsichord 2 If..an instrument could be framed, which should, like the Harpsichord, have its tones and demi-tones, its tonics, and quints. 1806 Earl Stanhope Princ. Sci. Tuning Instruments with Fixed Tones 5 Let us tune all the following intervals by perfect quints. 1865 tr. L. Spohr Autobiogr. II. 14 Three ugly quints follow each other. 1887 J. A. L. Riley Athos 406 It is not founded upon the modern system of octaves, but is a succession of similar quints. 1898 J. Stainer Stainer & Barrett's Dict. Musical Terms (rev. ed.) 381/2 An organ stop of the gamba species, but of the pitch of a quint, or of a twelfth. 2001 New Grove Dict. Music (Electronic ed.) at Ruckers The quart virginal and the special double-manual harpsichord sounding a quint below reference both had C/E to d''' compasses. b. An organ stop which sounds one or more octaves plus a fifth above the note played. More fully quint stop. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mutation stops > specific twelfth1613 nineteenth1819 seventeenth1819 quint1855 1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ xxi. 110 Some [stops] sound g on the C key..Those are called ‘fifth-sounding’ or Quint Stops. 1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ xxi. 117 The Quint on the Pedal is almost invariably composed of stopped pipes. 1905 T. Casson Pedal Organ 24 I once tried the experiment of borrowing the Quint from a manual Bourdon. 1924 Musical Times Sept. 834/1 The Swell has been unaltered except for the substitution of a Vox Angelica for the Quint and a reconstitution of the Mixtures. 1992 Oxf. Compan. Musical Instruments 275/1 In organs, a Quint is a rank of pipes which sounds one or more octaves plus a fifth above the basic 8′. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quintn.2 1. In piquet: a sequence of five cards of the same suit, scoring fifteen. Now rare. quint major n. a quint comprising the sequence of cards from ace to ten. quint minor n. any quint not including the ace, usually that from the jack to the seven. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > piquet > [noun] > hand > combinations of cards quint1659 quint major1659 quint minor1659 sixieme1669 sexism1688 quatorze1701 1659 H. Neville Shufling, Cutting, & Dealing 3 Two Quint Minors will win the game. 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iv. i. 41 Zounds, the Rogue has a Quint-Major. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester vi. 83 A Quart is a sequence of four Cards, a Quint of five, a Sixism of six, &c. 1719 R. Seymour Court Gamester 76 Quint or Quinze, fifteen, though by a Corruption of Pronunciation we call it Kent. 1720 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester i. 93 Cards..which are Sequents..are called, either Tierces, Quartes, Quintes..according to their Number and Value. 1778 T. Jones Hoyle's Games Improved 119 By which Manner of discarding, you have a Probability of scoring fifteen Points for your Quint in Diamonds. 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 132 Never dealt the right number of cards..did not know a quart from a quint. 1860 Bohn'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.]. 1877 Sir S. Northcote in Life (1890) I. i. 3 (note) He got the point and also two quints, and thus a repique. 1915 E. A. Vizetelly tr. E. Zola Dram-Shop viii. 250 A quint in clubs. That's twenty, isn't it? Then tierce major in diamonds, twenty-three; [etc.]. 2006 D. Parlett Teach Yourself Card Games (new ed.) 144 [It] might tie if she has a quint, whereas the quint major in the former would be good against a diamond quint. 2. A set of five persons or things; = quintet n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [noun] > group of five > persons quint1678 quinquevirate1710 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 183 Since the State has made a Quint Of Generals, he's listed in't. 1938 News (Frederick, Maryland) 1 Mar. 6/6 Two basketball games will be played in the high school auditorium at Sykesville. One will be between the boys' team of that institution and a quint representing the alumni. 1999 Guardian 10 June i. 2/2 The US, Britain, France, German, and Italy—the ‘quint’ as they call themselves—have rejected the idea of a Russian sector. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). quintn.3 A cycle for five riders; = quintet n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > cycle for two or more people > for three, four, etc. quadruplet1893 triplet1894 quint1895 quintuplet1895 quad1896 quintet1896 sextet1896 sextuplet1896 1895 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. 6/1 Peter Berlo's mile at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, on Thursday..paced by a ‘quint’, is a new world's record for the professional class. 1896 Boston M. Jrnl. 26 June 3/7 The quint made its first appearance on Memorial Day. 1897 Daily News 8 June 9/4 Betts was obliged to stop, the chain of his pacing quint having given way. 1964 Listener 13 Feb. 272/3 I may..be the world's most experienced quint rider. You don't know what a quint is?..It is, in fact, a bicycle made for five. 2006 Denver Post (Nexis) 5 June b1 The five members of the Lawrence family from Colorado Springs opted to do the 32-mile road course..on the same bike. It's called a quint bike—like a tandem, but times 2.5. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quintn.4 North American. = quintuplet n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > quadruplets, etc. > one of septuplet1875 quint1934 quin1935 nonuplet1967 1934 Chicago Tribune 1 June 1/4 (headline) Doctor vetoes plan to show ‘quints’ at fair. 1979 Internat. Herald Tribune 29 May 24/7 She had overcome the traumas..and the sorrows that plagued the quints in younger years. 1984 E. Friedrich & C. Rowland Parents' Guide to raising Twins iii. 58 Occasionally, undiagnosed quads or quints are born vaginally—otherwise they are usually born by cesarean. 2004 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 14 Dec. a1 Zookeepers will wait for spring before putting the quint cubs outside for public viewing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † quintadj. Obsolete. rare. = quinary adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] fivec1000 quinary1603 quinquenary1690 quint1880 quintary1942 1880 A. H. Keane in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 9 272 The Khmêr quint system of numerals recalling the Malaysian pre-decimal period, when a week of five days prevailed in the Archipelago, and traces of which are still preserved in some of the Malaysian numerals. 1881 A. H. Keane in Nature 6 Jan. 220/2 They often still retain the old quint system..in the Oceanic area now mostly replaced by the decimal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2020). > see alsoalso refers to : quint-comb. form < n.1a1452n.21659n.31895n.41934adj.1880 see also |
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