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The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation (Law), to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the assets may be applied toward their discharge.

One who, or that which, liquidates.

The state or quality of being liquid.

To render liquid.

In a liquid manner; flowingly.

The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

To liquidate anew; to adjust a second time.

A second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment. A. Hamilton.

Half liquid; semifluid.

The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.

ice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one. Sesquiduplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of two and a half to one, or one in which the greater term contains the lesser twice and a half, as that of 50 to 20.

ith a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid. Flying squid, Giant squid. (Zoöl.) See under Flying, and Giant. -- Squid hound (Zoöl.), the striped bass.

Overweening pride; arrogance; presumption; insolence. [Obs.] Chaucer. Then pay you the price of your surquedry. Spenser.

A third somewhat; something mediating, or regarded as being, between two diverse or incompatible substances, natures, or positions.

Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages (Law), penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

ephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.

A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.