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To utter with quavers. We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera. Addison.

One who quavers; a warbler.

To furnish with quays.

Wharfage. [Also keyage.]

p. p. of Quail. [Obs.] Spenser.

To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]

Acquainted. [Obs.]

Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.…

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.

An acquaintance. [R.] Swift.

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] Boyle.

The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

In an adequate manner.

The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of

Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.