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A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

Somebody; one unknown. Spenser.

A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.

Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative.

A subtilty; an equivocation. [Obs.] Shak. By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause. Drayton.

Quiddative.

essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est or, What is it " The degree of nullity and quiddity." Bacon. The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey.

To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.

at passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on. "The idle stories of quidnuncs." Motley.

Having equal differences; as, the terms of arithmetical progression are equidifferent.

Equal distance.

Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line. Whewell.

Not equally distant; not equidistant.

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid. Yes, though he go upon the plane and liquid water which will receive no step. Tyndale.

A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied oxygen and nitrogen. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cooling it by its own expansion to a temperature below the boiling point of its constituents (N -194º C; O -183º C.).

sting of two species of tall trees having star- shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.

See Liquidambar.

dness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness); clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law. 15 Ga. Rep. 821. If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor. Chesterfiel…