† quiˈnible, a. and n. Obs. rare.
Also 5 quynnyble.
[Irreg. f. L. quin(que) five, on anal. of trible, treble, quatrible, quatreble.]
A. adj. Fivefold; quintuple.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxxix. (MS. e Museo 16), In some treble and in some quatreble, in some quynyble. |
B. n.
1. A fivefold amount.
| 14.. [see quatreble B. 1]. |
2. A part in music, one octave above the treble. (Cf. quatreble B. 2.)
| c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 146 Ther to he song som tyme a loud quynyble. a 1550 Image Ipocr. iii. 78 in Skelton's Wks. II. 434/1 They finger ther fidles And cry in quinibles. |