Quid
[kwɪd]
Definition
(n.) A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
(v. t.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.
Typist: Murray
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Low.] Cud.
Inputed by Armand
Definition
n. what substance: something.—Tertium quid something distinct from both mind and matter itself immediately known mediating between the mind and the reality.
n. something chewed or kept in the mouth esp. a piece of tobacco.
n. (slang) a sovereign.
Checked by Angelique
Examples
- Or a moosic 'all, observed Gurt, chewing his quid reflectively. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Ain't used t' it, grinned Gurt, shifting his quid; for, during all the trouble and danger, he had retained that as his only solace. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Which is a notion Pliny had long before him: _Quid enim_, says he, _aliud est in terr? tremor, quam in nube tonitru? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Inputed by Claude