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Definition of Cinque
1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
Generic synonyms: Digit, Figure
Definition of Cinque
1. n. Five; the number five in dice or cards.
Definition of Cinque
1. Noun. The number five as seen on a die or on a card. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cinque
1. the number five [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinque
Literary usage of Cinque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compendium of the Law of Merchant Shipping: With an Appendix, Containing by Frederic Philip Maude, Charles Edward Pollock (1881)
"In cases of salvage arising within the jurisdiction of the cinque I'orts ('').
the salvors may take proceedings, as in cases of salvage occurring elsewhere, ..."
2. A Bibliography of British Municipal History: Including Gilds and by Charles Gross (1897)
"THE cinque PORTS. a. Records, Nos. 677-685. b. General Histories, etc., Nos.
686-705. Most of the records belonging to the cinque Ports are kept in an iron ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Thus, a blot may be hit on an eight with daten ; fours ; cinque, ... Quatre cinque
and quatre aix : carry s man from your adversary's ace point as far as he ..."
4. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"Co"r"'?r« tile cinque Ports where the writ of the king does not run; ... in the
charters is within the cinque Ports ; judgment if the Court will take ..."
5. A Short Constitutional History of England by Henry St. Clair Feilden (1895)
"The cinque Ports fleet, however, occasionally acted on the offensive, eg in 1147
they ... In 1242 there was a piratical war between the cinque Ports, ..."
6. The Mirrour of Justices: Written Originally in the Old French, Long Before by Andrew Horne, Anthony Fitzherbert (1903)
"The cinque Ports. THERE are also divers other courts, and inferior places ...
and in those places they have judges, as in the cinque Ports, and such places ..."
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