Quick /(?)/

Quick

Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
Not fully quyke, ne fully dead they were.
— Chaucer.

The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.
— 2 Tim. iv. 1.

Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire.
— Herbert.
Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
Oft he to her his charge of quick return Repeated.
— Milton.
Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
— Latimer.
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.
— Shak.
Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
They say that women are so quick.
— Tennyson.
Pregnant; with child.

Quick grass: See Quitch grass.
Quick match: See under Match.
Quick vein: a vein of ore which is productive, not barren.
Quick vinegar: vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.
Quick water: quicksilver water.
Quick with child: pregnant with a living child.

adv.

In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
— Locke.

That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
The works . . . are curiously hedged with quick.
— Evelyn.
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.
This test nippeth, . . . this toucheth the quick.
— Latimer.

How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference !
— Fuller.
Quitch grass. (Bot.)

v. t. & i.