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quint(2) (iou)



quint noun2. L17.
[French: see QUINT noun1.]
In piquet, a sequence of five cards of the same suit counting as fifteen. Cf. TIERCE noun1 4.
quint major the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of a suit. quint minor the five cards from the jack to the seven.

saturate (medicine)


saturate


Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked. "Dries his feathers saturate with dew." (Cowper) "The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs." (Longfellow)

Origin: L. Saturatus, p. P.

1. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate. "Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic." (Macaulay) "Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind." (Emerson)

2. <chemistry> To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

Origin: L. Saturatus, p.p. Of saturate to saturate, fr. Satur full of Food, sated. See Satire.

Source: Websters Dictionary