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Definition of Quids
1. quid [n] - See also: quid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quids
Literary usage of Quids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1805 The quids, or Third Party, boast of the blackguard Bullies votes contrary
... 1807 Let faithless Traitors, and Apostate quids, Tories of old and sullen ..."
2. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"the son of Old,' whence the patronymic form quids. 1750. ... A. — — Joshua quids
and Mary Gar- nett : ibid. p. 186. London, 5,1, 3, o ; New York, 12, o, o, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"StuH>le your i You wants to trek I. Lend you my quids? Not one, by Dickey.
—Lytton: Paul Clifford. Stuck, to be (popular), to be moneyless. ..."
4. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"To go to war with England and not with France arms the Federalists with new
matter, and divides the Republicans, some of whom, with the quids, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1894)
"And in quids v. Harrison, 23 Eng. L. & Eq. 524, the same distinguished jurist
said: "It must be considered as entirely settled by the case of Burrough v. ..."
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