Definition of "queint"

queint

adjective
comparative more queint, superlative most queint
1. Obsolete form of quenched.
  Quotations
  with fresh onset he assaild, / And kindling new his courage seeming queint, / Strooke him so hugely [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. Obsolete form of quaint.