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Key :: Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..

Mullet :: Mullet (n.) A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son..

Point :: Point (n.) Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints..

Quinquefoliated :: Quinquefoliated (a.) Having five leaves or leaflets.

Quintuple :: Quintuple (v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many..

Fifty :: Fifty (n.) The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.

Pentandria :: Pentandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having five separate stamens.

Alcaic :: Alcaic (n.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls..

Pentarchy :: Pentarchy (n.) A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers.

Five :: Five (a.) Four and one added; one more than four.

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons..

Quinqueliteral :: Quinqueliteral (a.) Consisting of five letters.

Subreader :: Subquintuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to five; as, subquintuple proportion..

Quint :: Quint (n.) A set or sequence of five, as in piquet..

Quinquevir :: Quinquevir (n.) One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.

Cinque-spotted :: Cinque-spotted (a.) Five-spotted.

Petalism :: Petalism (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

Victoria :: Victoria (n.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet..

Quintette :: Quintette (n.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music..

Pentoxide :: Pentoxide (n.) An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5..

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