acquaintance

A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.

I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

Contract no friendſhip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he reſembles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.

A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.

Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).

Having therefore conſulted with my Wife, and ſome of my Acquaintance, I determined to go again to Sea.

Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.

Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).

The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.