quicklime

[Eng. quick, and lime.] Lime In a caustic state; calcium oxide deprived by heat of its carbon dioxide and water. This is extensively done in lime-kilns, the fuel used being faggots, brushwood, or coal. The firewood and lime to be calcined are mixed. Quicklime treated with water evolves much heat, and falls into a thick paste. Lime thus slaked and mixed with sand constitutes mortar. quick-lý, *quich-liche, *quicke-ly, *quyclyche, *quyk-ly, adv. [Eng. quick; -ly.] 1. With quickne , speed, or rapidity; rapidly, speedily. "Bear me, some God! oh, quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude." Pope: Donne, sat. 4. 2. Soon; without delay; in a short time; as, Return quickly . *quick-mire, subst . [English quick , and mire.] Ground which moves under the feet; a quagmire, a bog. quick-ne , *quyk-ne e, subst . [Eng. quick ; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being quick or alive; vital power or principle. ( Herbert .) 2. Speed, rapidity, velocity, celerity. "Surely their quicknes and swiftene did more preiudice to theyr enemyes then their great barbed horses did hurt or damage the nimble Irish men."- Hall : Henry V. (an. 6). 3. Activity, briskne , promptne , readine ; as, quickne of wit. 4. Acutene of perception; keen or acute sensi bility. *5. Sharpne , pungency, keenne . "Whereof a few drops tinge and add a pleasant quick ne ."-Mortimer: Husbandry. quick-sănd, 8. [Eng. quick , and sand . Properly living sand; sand that evinces its life by moving, as contrasted with the immobile sand so frequently met with.] Sand readily moved, or easily yielding to pre ure; spec if., a large ma of or mov ing sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous from its being unable to support the weight of a person. "Out of the deep into the sholdes and quick san des Phaer: Virgil's Æneidos, i. made to sinke." quick-sănd-ý, a . [Eng. quicksand ; -y.] Full of quicksands; of the nature of a quicksand. "Quick sandy grounds."-Adams: Works , i. 858. quick-sět. s. & a. [Eng. quick , and set .] IMG:content-0102.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A quickset hedge. "A goodly orchard A loftie quickset ." about which was led Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, iii. B. As adj .: Formed or composed of quicks. "Boldly he took the well-trimmed quickset fence which bounds this trap."- Field , Oct. 17, 1885. quick-sět, v . 1. [QUICKSET, 8.] To plant with quicks or living plants, especially to form a hedge. "In making or mending, as needeth thy ditch, Get set to quickset it, learn cunningly which." Tu er: Husbandry. quick-set-těd, pa. par. or a. [QUICKSET, υ.] Set with quicksets or quicks.