These are the meanings of the letters PENTAQUIN when you unscramble them.
- Antique (a.)
In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.
- Antique (a.)
Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's \"Castle of Indolence.\"
- Antique (a.)
Odd; fantastic.
- Antique (a.)
Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.
- Antique (a.)
Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.
- Petunia (n.)
A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.
- Pinnate (a.)
Alt. of Pinnated
- Piquant (a.)
Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote.
- Quinate (n.)
A salt of quinic acid.
- Quinnat (n.)
The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.
- Quintan (a.)
Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
- Quintan (n.)
An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.