Quick

kwik, adj. living: lively: speedy: nimble: ready: sensitive: hasty: pregnant: active, piercing.— adv. without delay: rapidly: soon.— n. a living animal or plant: the living: the living flesh: the sensitive parts: a hedge of some growing plant, quickset.— adj. Quick′-an′swered ( Shak. ), quick at giving an answer.— n. Quick′beam , the mountain-ash or rowan.— adj. Quick′-conceiv′ing , quick at conceiving or understanding.— v.t. Quick′en , to make quick or alive: to revive: to reinvigorate: to cheer: to excite: to sharpen: to hasten.— v.i. to become alive: to move with activity.— n. the couch or quitch-gra .— ns. Quick′ener , one who, or that which, reinvigorates; Quick′ening , the period in pregnancy when the mother first becomes conscious of the movement of the child—from the sixteenth or seventeenth week onwards.— adj. Quick′-eyed , having acute sight.— ns. Quick′-gra = Quitch-gra ; Quick′-hedge , a hedge of living plants; Quick′lime , recently burnt lime, caustic and unslaked: carbonate of lime without its carbonic acid.— adv. Quick′ly .— ns. Quick′march (same as Quick′step ); Quick′match (see Match ); Quick′ne ; Quick′sand , a movable sandbank in a sea, lake, ., any large ma of sand saturated with water, often dangerous to travellers: anything treacherous.— adj . Quick′-scent′ed , having a keen scent.— n. Quick′set , a living plant set to grow for a hedge, particularly the hawthorn.— adj. consisting of living plants.— adj. Quick′-sight′ed , having quick or sharp sight: quick in discernment.— ns. Quick′-sight′edne , sharpne of sight or discernment; Quick′silver , the common name for fluid mercury, so called from its great mobility and its silvery colour.— v.t. to overlay or to treat with quicksilver.— adj. Quick′silvered .— ns. Quick′silvering , the mercury on the back of a mirror; Quick′step , a march in quick time: ( mus. ) a march written in military quick time.— adj. Quick′-tem′pered , irascible.— n. Quick′-wa′ter , a solution of nitrates of mercury and of gold, for water-gilding.— adj. Quick′-wit′ted , having ready wit.— ns. Quick′-wit′tedne ; Quick′-work , the part of a ship under water when laden: the part of the inner upper-works of a ship above the covering board: the short planks worked inside between the ports: spirketting.— Some quick ( Spens. ), something alive. [A.S. cwic ; Ice. kvikr , Goth. kwius , living; allied to L. vivus .]