Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quint"
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
quint
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: {five},
{5}, {V}, {cinque}, {quintet}, {fivesome}, {quintuplet},
{pentad}, {fin}, {Phoebe}, {Little Phoebe}]
2: one of five children born at the same time from the same
pregnancy [syn: {quintuplet}, {quin}]
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