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Ubiquitous. [R.]

The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.

Not acquainted. Cowper.

Unacquaintance. Whiston.

Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.

Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. [Obs.] Boyle.

Not equaled; unmatched; unparalleled; unrivaled; exceeding; surpassing; -- in a good or bad sense; as, unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness. [Written also unequalled.]

In an unequal manner. Unequally pinnate (Bot.), pinnate, but with an odd number of leaflets.

The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.

To disqualify; to unfit. Swift.

Deprived of the usual faculties. [Obs.] Shak.

Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.

Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.

The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.

See Water brash, under Brash.

aken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.

Having the quality of hiding. [R.] Bailey.