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- English Word Quick Definition The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
- English Word Quick Definition Quitch grass.
- English Word Quick Definition To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
- English Word Quick-scented Definition Acute of smell.
- English Word Quick-sighted Definition Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern.
- English Word Quick-witted Definition Having ready wit
- English Word Quick-wittedness Definition Readiness of wit.
- English Word Quickbeam Definition See Quicken tree.
- English Word Quicken Definition To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
- English Word Quicken Definition To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed.
- English Word Quicken Definition To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.
- English Word Quicken Definition To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb.
- English Word Quicken Definition To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
- English Word Quicken tree Definition The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree.
- English Word quickened Definition of Quicken
- English Word Quickener Definition One who, or that which, quickens.
- English Word Quickening Definition of Quicken
- English Word Quickening Definition The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
- English Word Quickening Definition The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.
- English Word Quickens Definition Quitch grass.
- English Word Quickhatch Definition The wolverine.
- English Word Quicklime Definition Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
- English Word Quickly Definition Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
- English Word Quickness Definition The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
- English Word Quickness Definition Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.
- English Word Quickness Definition Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
- English Word Quickness Definition Sharpness; pungency of taste.
- English Word Quicksand Definition Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
- English Word Quickset Definition A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
- English Word Quickset Definition Made of quickset.