Index of English words, starting with "qu"

(1) - Quinsy (n.) 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.

(1) - Quint (n.) The interval of a fifth.
(2) - Quint (n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.

(1) - Quintain (n.) An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.

(1) - Quintal (n.) A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.
(2) - Quintal (n.) A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental.

(1) - Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
(2) - Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.