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 forces his creditors to giue him fiue yeares day of payment.

Quinquangle: com. Fiue-cornered, hauing fiue angles or corners.

Quinque. Pain de quinque. Delicate bread made especially against the foure solemne feasts of Easter, S. Peter and S. Paules day, th' Assumption of the Virgine Marie, and Christmas.

Quinquenaut: m. A little stinging, and venomous flie, in the Prouinces of Sologne, & la Beausse. Quinquenelle. as Quinquennelle. Quinquennelle: f. A respit, or terme of fiue yeares.  Faire quinquennelle. To grow bankrupt; or, as a bankrupt, to procure, in respect of his pouertie or loßes, a respit of, or protection for, fiue yeares, during which his creditors can recouer nothing of him.

Quinquennon. Privilege de q. A Protection for fiue yeares, granted by the Prince (or his Officers) vnto a debtor, who makes good proofe of the losse, or extreame diminution, of his estate, since the time of the making of the bargaine, whereby he became indebted.

Quinson: m. A Spinke, or Chaffinch.

Quint: m. A fifth, or fift part; also, as le quint denier. Quint datif. The portion of an inheritance whereof onely a man may dispose, by gift, Will, or otherwise.  Quint naturel et coustumier. The portion of younger brethren; being (within the Countie of Ponthieu, and in other places) a fift part of all the land their father died seised of, equally diuided among them; yet so, as when any of them dies, his part is to reuert vnto the foure parts enioyed by th' eldest.  Quint & requint. Looke Requint. Quint viager, ou heredital. Whereof a man may dispose as of his owne inheritance (by the customs of Amiens;) or, the portion of an inheritance Feodal belōging to a younger brother (by the customes of Peronne.)  Quint de vivre naturel. as Quint naturel et coustumier. Droict de quint. as le quint denier. Quint: m. quinte: f. The fift.  Le quint denier. The fift pennie, or part of the price, of land thats sold; payed vnto the Lord of the soyle by the seller in some places, in others by the buyer, and in  some others equally by both.

Quintage: m. A fift part, or the laying out of the fift part of an inheritance for younger brethren.

Quintain: m. French Laune; or, as Quintin. Quintaine: f. A Quintane (or Whintane) for countrey youthes to runne at.  Les Quintaines, & ban de non vendre vin en detail. as Droict de ban à vin. Quintal: m. A Quintall, or hundred weight.

Quinte: f. as Quint; A fift part; also, a fift (or the proportion of fiue) in Musicke, &c; also, a fantasticall humor or veine; a foolish giddinesse of the braine.  Les quintes d'Angers. The Territorie, Libertie, Circuit, or extent of countrey, wherein the Prouost, or ordinarie Judge, hath Jurisdiction.  Il a sa quinte. He is now in the humor, or in his moods; he hath odde conceits, at this time, in his braine.  Il est en quinte de faire cela. He is in the vaine, or a toy hath taken him in the head, to doe that same; he is foolishly affected, or humored vnto it.

Quintefueille: f. Cinkfoyle, Fiue-leaued grasse.

Quintement: m. A laying, or taking out a fift part.

Quintement. Fiftly.

Quinter. To lay, or take, out a fift part; also, as Pancher; to leane, or hang, ato side. Quinter les fiefs. To diuide a fift part of them among younger brethren.  Quinter ses heritages. To dispose of a fift part therof.

Quintessence: f. A quintescence; the vertue, force, or spirit of a thing extracted.

Quintessencé: m. ée: f. Exceedingly refined, or purified.

Quintessencer. To extract the quintescence, vertue, or spirit, out of a thing; to refine, or purifie exceedingly.

Quintessencieux: m. euse: f. All quintescence, full of spirit, exactly fine.

Quintessentier. as Quintessencer. Quinteux: m. euse: f. Humorous, fantasticall, toyish, capricious; moodie, waspish; harebraind, giddie headed.

Quintin: m. A course kind of Laune.

Quintil: m. A rash Judge, or hastie censurer, of other mens writings.

Quinuneve. En ordre quin. In Checker forme, or Checker-wise.

Quinzaine. A terme, or delay of fifteene whole dayes together, granted, in some cases, by the Judges.  Sauf quinzaine. With reseruation of the 15 dayes respit, or terme which he hath gotten.

Quinze: f. Fifteene.

Quinze-vingts de Patis. An Hospitall wherein three hundred blind people be releeued with bread, lodging, and about iiij. d. a day; besides a priuiledge to beg at certaine Church doores.

Quinziesme. le q. The fifteenth.

Quiquenelle. as Quinquenelle. Quis: m. ise: f. Sought, looked, searched for; demaunded, asked, inquired after; fetched, gotten.

Quitance: f. An Acquitance, Release, discharge.

Quite: com. Discharged, quit, freed, released, forgiuen, absolued, set cleere aboord.  Iouër à quite, ou à double. To play double or quit, win the mare or loose the haulter.  Il n'est pas quite qui doibt de reste: Prov. He is not quit that oweth ought.

Quité: m. ée: f. Quitted, forsaken, forgone, remitted, released, yeelded vp, giuen ouer.

Quitement. Freely, quietly, peaceably, without let, hinderance, impeachment, or disturbance.

Quiter. To quit, forgoe, renounce, yeeld vp, abandon, giue ouer; to void, withdraw, or part, from; to remit, release, discharge, acquit, pardon, forgiue, absolue, dispence with.  Quiter vn boeuf pour prendre vn oeuf. To leaue an Oxe for the loue of an egge.  Quiter la ceincture. Looke Ceincture. Quiter les cendres. To stirre abroad; or, to quit his idle, base, or vnworthie courses.  Qui Dieu quite est bien heureux: Prov. Happie is he whom God absolues.

Quiterne: f. A Gitterne.

Quiteur: m. A quitter, acquiter, freer, discharger; one that giues an acquittance, or Quietus est. Quitté, & Quitter. as Quité, & Quiter. Quitteur. as Quiteur. Quittus: m. An Acquittance, or Quietus est. Qulocul: m. A dilling, or swill pough; the last, or youngest child one hath.

Quocas: m. Shaled nuts: ¶Rab. Quocquetier: m. A Huckster.

Quolibet: m. A quirke, or quidditie; also, a ieast, or by-word.