Word Meanings - QUINTUPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold. Quintuple time , a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• MULTIPLICABLE
  Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• MULTIPLICATOR
  The number by which another number is multiplied; a multiplier.
• FIVEFOLD
  In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
• TIMESERVING
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• INCREASINGLY
  More and more.
• MULTIPLICATIVELY
  So as to multiply.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• SELDOMNESS
  Rareness. Hooker.
• QUINTUPLE-NERVED; QUINTUPLE-RIBBED
  The same as Quinquenerved.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• SUBQUINTUPLE
  Having the ratio of one to five; as, subquintuple proportion. Bp. Wilkins.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.