quid

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A cut, as of chewing tobacco.
2. n. Chiefly British A pound sterling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A cnd.
2. n. A portion suitable to be chewed; specifically, a piece of tobacco chewed and rolled about in the mouth.
3. To drop partly masticated food from the mouth: said of horses.
4. n. What; nature; substance.
5. n. Something: used chiefly in the phrase tertium quid (see below). See predication.
6. n. A sovereign (£1).

Wiktionary

1. n. The inherent nature of something.
2. n. US, historical A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid).
3. n. historical A sovereign or guinea.
4. n. UK, colloquial Pound sterling.
5. n. Australia, colloquial pound (before the 1966 currency change)
6. n. Ireland, colloquial pound, punt
7. n. Ireland, colloquial euro
8. n. A piece of chewing tobacco.
9. n. US, colloquial the act of chewing such tobacco
10. v. To chew tobacco
11. v. of a horse To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud.
2. n. Slang, Eng. An English coin, a sovereign.
3. v. (Man.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises
2. n. a wad of something chewable as tobacco
3. n. the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence