- an old Scottish unit of liquid measure equivalent to about a quart.
- a container holding this amount.
- Polish composer and pianist, in France after 1831.
- U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- Frédéric (François) (frederik). 1810–49, Polish composer and pianist active in France, who wrote chiefly for the piano: noted for his harmonic imagination and his lyrical and melancholy qualities
