speech reading (spechre"ding)

The proce of comprehending spoken words by watching the speaker's lips, as taught to deaf-mutes. speed (sped), n. [ O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day. Gen. xxiv. 12. Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed ! Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 139. Remember me To our all-royal brother; for whose speed The great Bell on a I'll solicit. Fletcher (and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 3. 21. A promoter of succe or progre ; a speeder. There; and Saint Nicholas be thy speed! Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 301. 3. Rapidity of movement; quickne of mo- tion; swiftne : also used figuratively. Wi speid they ran awa. Sir James the Rose (Child's Ballads, III. 75). In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed . Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 214. Blackie , Lays of the Highlands, p. 18. speechification (spē"chi-fi-kashon), n. speechify + -ation (see -fication ).] The act of making speeches or of haranguing. [Humorous or contemptuous.] speechifier (spē'chi-fi-ér), п. [ speechify + -er1.] One who speechifies; one who is fond of making speeches; a habitual speechmaker. [Humorous or contemptuous.] A county member,... both out of the house and in it, is liked the better for not being a speechifier . George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, xliv. speechify (spēʻchi-fi), v . i.; pret. and pp. speech ified , ppr. speechifying . [ speech +-i-fy.] To make a speech; harangue. [Humorous or contemptuous.] At a political dinner everybody is disagreeable and inclined to speechify. Dickens , Sketches, Scenes, xix. He that rides at high speed, and with his pistol kills a sparrow flying. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 379. We have every reason to conclude that, in free space, all kinds of light have the same speed. Tait, Light, § 72. The term speed is sometimes used to denote the magnitude only [and not the direction] of a velocity. Wright , Text Book of Mechanics, p. 11. The machine has two different speeds of gear. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVII. 210. History can only record with wonder the speed with which both the actual Norman conquerors and the peaceful Norman settlers who came in their wake were absorbed into the general ma of English men. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 156. 5. In submarine rock - drilling , a leg or beam to which the drilling apparatus is attached. E. H. speed Knight. At speed, in her., said of a hart, or other animal of the chase, when represented as running. - Full speed, at the highest rate of speed; with the utmost swiftne . They said they saw about ten men riding swiftly towards us, and as many coming full speed down the hill. Pococke , Description of the East, II. [i. 62. Hart at speed. Good speed. See good. To have the speed oft, to get in advance of; pa ahead of; be swifter than. Our thane is coming; One of my fellows had the speed of him. Shak., Macbeth, i. 5. 36. =Syn. 3. Swiftne , Rapidity, etc. (see quickne ), expedition. IMG:content-1687.png:[blocks in formation] A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped ; If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. 8. To cause to be relieved: only in the pa ive. [Archaic.] We believe we deserve to be sped of all that our blind hearts desire. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 11. Being sped of my grumbling thus, and eased into better temper. R. D. Black more, Lorna Doone, lx. 9t. To disclose; unfold; explain. Ne hath it nat ben deter my ned ne isped fermly and diligently of any of yow. Chaucer , Boethius, v. prose 4. [The word in this quotation is a forced translation of the Latin expedita.] - God speed you, may God give you advancement or succe ; I wish you good progre or pros speed (spēd), v.; pret. and pp. sped, speeded, ppr. speeding. [ME. speden (pret. spedde, pp. sped ), IMG:content-1688.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To push forward; carry toward a conclusion; promote; advance. It shall be speeded well. Shak., M. for M., iv. 5. 10. Judicial acts are. sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties. Ayliffe , Parergon. 3. To send or push forward in a course; promote the going or progre of; cause to go; aid in going. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope , Ody ey, xv. 84. 4. To give high speed to; put to speed; hasten the going or progre of; make or cause to be rapid in movement; give celerity to: also used reflexively. The helple priest replied no more, But sped his steps along the hoarse resounding shore. perity. See God - speed. speed-cone (spēd'kōn), n. A contrivance for varying and adjusting the velocity-ratio communicated between a pair of parallel shafts by means of a belt. It may be either one of a pair of continuous cones or conoids whose velocity-ratio can be varied gradually while they are in motion by shifting the latter case the velocity-ratio can be changed by shifting Applied Mechanics, p. 457. speeder (spē'der), n. [ hatube by sanding IMG:content-1689.png:[ocr errors] Supposing you to be the Lady, and three such Gentlemen to come unto you a wosoling: in faith, who should be the speeder? Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 294. These are the affections that befit them that are like to be speeders. The sluggard lusteth, and wanteth. Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 7. 2. One who or that which moves with great swiftne , as a horse. [Colloq.] -3. One who or something which promotes speed; specifically, some mechanical contrivance for quickening speed of motion or operation; any speeding device in a machine, as a pair of speed cones or cone-pulleys. See speed - multiplier. To spill [ruin) vs thu was oure spedar , For thow was oure lyghte and oure ledar. York Plays , p. 5. 4. In cotton - manuf., a machine which takes the place of the bobbin and fly-frame, receiving the slivers from the carders, and twisting them into rovings.