QUICK. understonden bet te soule bet. .nefde bute dead heou, haueO ikeiht cwic heou. 1423 tr. Secreta Secret. 223 The [fifth token] Is that a man haue quyke coloure. 1656 [see QUICK- NESS 2], 0x693 AUBREY Lives (1898) I. 60 (W. Aubrey) He had a delicate, quick, lively .. complexion. f6. Of things seen: Lifelike, vivid. Obs. rare. 13. . E. E. A Hit. P. A. 1179 Fro alle bo sy^tez so quyker tr. De Imitations I. xviii. [Iread quyke] & queme. c 1450 19 Beholde e quicke ensamples of olde fadres. 1533 BELLENDEN Livy Prol. (1901) 4 Of awfull batallis, .. 3 may fynd here, . . Als quyk as bai war led afore jour Ee. f 7. a. Of rock : Natural, * '. living b. Of earth : (see quot. 1620). Obs. C *47S Partenay 1125 Vppon the quicke Roche thay it sett tho. Ibid. 4352 A caue.. Within the quike roche. 1620 MARKHAM Farew. Hush. n. ii. (1668) 7 You shall be sure to raise up the quick earth which had not been stirred up with the Plough before. 8. a. Mining. Of veins, etc. : Containing ore, productive. (Cf. DEAD a. 10.) 1676 J. BEAUMONT in Phil. Trans. XI. 735 Subterraneous Vaults or Grotto'$ whereof some . . are said by our Miners t to be quick, often haying oar in them. 1747 HOOSON Miner's Diet. Q ij b, Veins, Serins, Pipes, &c. if they bear and such as have no Ore, go by any Ore, are called Quick ; the Names of Dead Veins. 1881 in RAYMOND Mining Gloss, b. Of stock, capital, etc. : Productive of interest or profit. 1701 LUTTRELL Brief R el. (1857) V. i The quick stock of both companies shal be paid for discharge of their debts. 1711 KEN Christojfhil Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 423, 1. .spent on the Quick-stock which I could never drain. 1818 JAS. MII.I, Brit. India 1. 1. v. 81 The estimate which was formed of their quick and dead stock. 1891 Pall Mall G. 19 Nov. 7/1 The quick assets [of the American Cotton Oil Trust] .. amounted on August 31 last to 5,928,338 dots. ** Possessed of motion. 9. Of wells, springs, streams, or water: Running, flowing. (Cf. OE. cwiewtlle adj.) Now rare* t- 1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxiii. 8 He. .clifu cyrreS on cwicu.. waeteres wellan. c izso Bestiary 34 1 Bihoue5 us to rennen to cristes quike welle. 1340 Ayenb. 98 To lhade of be zeue streames be quikke weteres. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxiii. (George) 319 In be mydis J>e altere a quyk wel sprang. c 1430 LYDG. Com6l. Bl. Knt. xi, A litel welle, That had his cours .. with quikke stremes colde. 1600 HOLLAND Livy XLH. liv. 1 147 The place is . . watered also with many quicke and running springs. 1677 EVELYN Diary (1827) II. 425 Whose house stands inviron'd with very sweete and quick streams. ^1710 CELIA FIENNES Diary (1888) 289 Its not a quick spring and very often is dranke drye. 1816 BYRON Parisina xx, The living stream lies quick below, And flows, and cannot cease to flow. 1889 PATER G. de Latour 75 Gently winding valleys, with clear, quick water. 10. Of soil, etc. : Mobile, shifting, readily yielding to pressure. Now rare. Cf. QUICKSAND. a 1340 HAMPOLE Psalter i. i As he b* gas on qwik grauel bat eers him synk b l standis bar on. 155* HULOET, Quycke sandes or shelues, syrtes. x6oa CAREW Cornwall 8 b, The quicke ground (as they call it) that mooued with the floud. 1696 Phil. Trans. XIX. 352 Great Freshes . . make the Sands Shift, and consequently Quick. 1771 SMOLLETT Humph. Cl. 12 Sept., The Solway sands,. . as the tide . . makes, become quick in different places. 1890 EMERSON Wild Life 58, I pulled my legs out of the soft ooze, and was soon across the patch of quick ground. *** Having some form of activity or energy. 11. f a. Of coals : Live, burning. Obs. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 224 Do to fyre on croccan, ofer wylle on godum gledum clanum & cwicum. 1340 Ayenb. 205 A quic col berninde ope ane hyeape of dyade coles. c 1400 MAUtfpCV. (Roxb.) xxxi. 142 If a man . .couer be coles beroff with aschez, bai will bald in quikk a twelfmonth. -_,&._. v ... 1657 TRAPP Comm. Ps. cxx. 4 Juniper . . maketh a very scorching fire, and quick coals, such as last long. 1764 HARMER Observ. iii. 118 They. .put it into an oven upon the quick coals. b. Of fire or flames : Burning strongly or briskly. Also of an oven : Exposed to a brisk fire. c 1374 CHAUCER Boeth. iv. pr. vi. 104 (Camb. MS.) A ryht lyfly and quyk fyre of thpwht, 1604 E. G[KIMSTONE] D'Acosta's hist. Indies II. vii. 96 If it [the fire] bee quicke and violent, it doth greatly evaporate the quick-silver. 16x4 QUARLES Stan's Satin, xx. 19 Thy breath . . incends quicke flames, where Ember'd sparkes but shine. 1708 J. C Compl. Collier (1845) 16 It makes a hot quick Fire. 1769 MRS. RAFFALD Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 4 Bake it in a quick oven three hours. i8ai SHELLEY Prometk. Unb. III. i. 38 God ! Spare rrte ! I sustain not the quick flames. 1863 READE Hard Cask xiv, You will cook your own goose by a quick fire. f!2. Of speech, writings, etc. : Lively, full of :igge : quicke scele o)Ter aperte miracle. ^1386 CHAUCER Prol. 306 That [speech] was . . short and quyk, and ful of hy sentence, c 1400 Apol. Loll. 8 Ajen swilk feynid . .indulgens, howij> a feibful prest to multiply quek resouns. 1531 and mery dialoges elect out ELVOT Gov. i. x, Some quicke of Luciane. 1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie I. xxviii. (Arb.) 70 An inscription.. in few verses, pithie, quicke and senten- tious. i6as GILL Sacr. Philos. Pref., Though his writings be easie and quicke, yet his matiers are scattered. 1 13. Of places or times : Full of activity or business ; busy. Of trade : Brisk. Obs. c 1386 CHAUCER Frankl. T. 774 Amyd the toun, right in the quyke strete. 1538 LELAND Itiii. I. 8 A good quik Market Toune. 1641 BEST Farm. Bks- (Surtees) 102 The kinge beinge there, the markets were very quicke. ft 1661 FULLER Worthies (1840) II. 190 He called Manchester the fairest and quickest town in this county, a 1687 PETTY 52 Pol. Arith. (1690) 18 Some where or other in the World, Trade is always quick enough. 1726-46 THOMSON Winter 779 Pure, quick, and sportful is the wholesome day. (14. Of sulphur: Keadilyinflammable, fiery. Obs. c 1530 Hickscorner in Had. Dodsley I. 179 He asked for a mouthful of quick brimstone. 1559 MORWYNG Evanytn. 323, ij unces of bothe kindes of Sulphur or brimstone, that is of the quik and dead. 1590 SPENSER /'. Q. i. vii. 13 That divelish yron Engin,..With windy Nitre and quick Sulphur fraught. 1661 LOVELL Hist. Anim. $ Mitt. 107 Honey, nitre, . . and quick brimstone, reduced unto the consistence of honey. 1 15. Of wine and other : liquors Brisk, effervescent. Obs. i6zo VENNER Via. Recta ii, 25 A pure and quicke wine. 1677 YARRANTON Eng. Iniprov. 122 As the different heat of the Climate is, so the Liquor shall ripen and grow quick and fit to drink. 1730-46 THOMSON Autumn 706 The mellow-tasted burgundy; and, quick As is the wit it gives, the gay champagne. **** Producing a strong effect on the senses or mind. 16. fa. Of the voice: Loud, clear. Obs. rare"*, c 1105 LAY. 12306 Heo ..him to cleopeden quickere stseuene [c 1275 mid swife loude stemne]. b. Of colour : Vivid, bright, dazzling, rare. 1664 POWER Exp. Pkilos. i. 13 Eyes. .of a very quick and lively transparency or fulgour. 1851 G. MEREDITH Ltnv in the Valley xx, Stain are the poppies that shot their random scarlet Quick amid the wheatears. 17. Of : feelings Lively, vivid, keen, strongly felt. 1449 PECOCK Kepr. n. viii. 183 Quyk and feruent and .. deuout remembraunce. 1551 ROBINSON tr. Mare's Utofi. n. ix. (1895) 284 Onles they, by quycke repentaunce approue the amendement of their lyffes. 1665 GLANVILL Def. Vain Dogtn. 75, I have still a quick resentment of the Vanity of Confiding in Opinions. 1710 STEELE Tatter No. 196 F 5 These have in their several Stations a quick Relish of the exquisite Pleasure of doing Good. 175* CHESTERF. Lett. (1792) III. 254 The scene of quick and lively pleasures, 1839 BAILEY Festus viii. (1848) 87 Firestranded, rolling in quick agony. 18. fa. Of a taste or smell : Sharp, pungent ; brisk. Also of things iu respect of taste or smell (cf. 15). Obs. 1573 Treas, Hid. Secrets xlHi, If white Saunders. .be old, and have no pleasant and quicke odour, they are nothing worth. 1578 LYTE Dodoens v. xx. 574 These two Purcelaynes are., of a sharps or quicke taste. 1641 FRENCH Distill, v. (1651) 126 It will tast as quick as bottle beer that is a fortnight old. 1670 NARBOROUGH JmL in Ace. Sev. Late Voy, (1694) i. 68 This Rind . . is hotter than Pepper and more quicker. 1758 REID tr. Macquer's Chynt. I. 33 Its smell is.. extremely quick and suffocating when it smokes. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 625/2 Their smell is quick and penetrating, their taste pungent. fb. Of speech or : writing Sharp, caustic. Obs. 1580 LYLY Enphues (Arb.) 280 A quicke aunswere that might cut him. 1589 NASHE Pref. Greene's Menafhon (Arb.) 9 In Scholler-like matters of controuersie, a quicker stile may pass as commendable. 1616 BULLOKAR . Eng Expos. t QitippC) a quicke checke, a pretty taunt. 1685 Roxb, Bali. IV. 284 These quirks are too quick, you do put on me. 1748 JOHNSON Van. Hum. Wishes 62 ^How wouldst thou . .Dart the quick taunt, and edge the piercing gibe? C. Of air or : light Sharp, rare. piercing, 1608 SHAKS. Per. iv. i. 28 The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. 1818 KEATS Endym. n. 918 Other light, Though it be quick and sharp enough to blight The Olympian eagle's vision, is dark. f* d. Of what causes pain. Obs. rare~~ l . a 1716 SOUTH Serm. (1744) II. 27 The punishment of the Cross Is . . the quickest and the most acute. III. Having in a high degree the vigour or energy characteristic of life, and hence distinguished by, or capable of, prompt or rapid action or movement. 19. Of : persons (or animals) Full of vigour, energy, or activity (now rare] ; prompt or ready to act ; acting, or able to act, with speed or rapidity (freq. with suggestion or implication of sense 23). 13. . E. E. Allit. P. B. 624 He. .Comaunded hir to be cof and quyk at pis one;, c 1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. Wace (Rolls) 16372 Jtey smette to-gedere so bitterlyke, J>at cyber side fond ober quyke. 1434 MISYN Mending Life 118 So bat qwen ba rise to pray, ba be qwhickar pen pai before were. (1440 Promp. Parv. 421/1 Quykj or lyvely, or delyvyr, vivax, 1535 COVERDALE Ezra vii. 6 Ezdras . . was a quycke scrybe in the jawe of Moses, n 1548 HALL Chron., Hen. flf 32 b, This king was ..formally compact, quicke and deliver and of a stout courage. 1611 BIBLK Ecclns. xxxi. 22 In all thy workes bee quicke. a 1715 BURNET Own Time in. (1724) I. 382 Seimour..was a graceful man, bold and quick. 1816 BYRON (,'/;. Har. in. xiij, Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. 1833 TENNYSON Rosalind ii, The quick lark's closest-caroll'd strains. b. Of qualities in a person (or animal). 4:1380 WYCLIF Serm. Set Wks. I. 109 Crist fastide fourty daies . . and he was in quyke age, and listide wel to ete. 1535 STEWART Chron. Scot. I. 12 Thair curage .. that tyme wessoquik. c 1580 SIDNEY Ps. xxxm. xi,Of quick strength is an horse, a 1661 FULLER Worthies (1840) II. 536 He was a good patriot, of a quick and clear spirit. 1733 NEAL Hist. Purft. I. 342 He was a little man, of a quick spirit. 1819 SHELLEY Cenci i. iii. 173 The resolution of quick youth Within my veins. c. Of things (material and immaterial). 1545 ASCHAM Toxoph. n. (Arb.) 117 So that he [a. bow] be , . quycke and spedye ynoughe for farre castynge. 1551 ROBINSON tr. Morels Utop, n. iv. (1895) 149 They., finde spedy and quicke remedies for present fautes. 1592 SHAKS. Rom. a. cwices modes jeornlice leornade ba bing. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 8 In theyr owne pregnaunt and quycke wytte and reason. 1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie in. xvii. (Arb.) 196 Synecdoche,, .because it seemeth to aske a good, quick, and pregnant capacitie,. .1 chose to call him the figure.. of quick conceite. 1651 HOBBES Leviatk. i. xiii. 60 One man . . of quicker mind then another, a 1715 BURNET Own Time in. ( 1724) I. 354 Lord Sunderland was a man of. . a quick decision in business. 1785 PALEY Mor. Philos. (1818) I. 361 At our public schools .. quick parts are cultivated, slow ones are neglected. 1804 Ann. Rev. II. 79/1 The author is evidently a man of quick observation and lively fancy. 1855 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 310 Queen Mary.. had naturally a quick perception of what was excellent in art. 22. Hasty, impatient, hot-tempered. ? Obs. 1549 LATIMER 6th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 172 The Byshop was some what quicke wyth theym, and signified that he was muche offended. 1588 SHAKS. L. L. L. n. i. 118 You must not be so quicke. 1628 FORD Lover's Mel. n. i, Are you so quick? Well, I may chance to cross Your peevishness. b. So of temper, disposition, etc. 1837 DISRAELI Venetia \. viii, The expressions of a quick and offended temper. 1 1850 Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 89 The quick and violent disposition of his master. 23. Moving, or able to move, with speed. c 1450 Cov. Myst. xxx. (Shaks. Soc.) 298, I am as whyt [= whyk] as thought. aiSpgSKELTQti fyrtoi(r Rummyng 337 Her tonge was verye quycke, But she spake somwhat thycke. 1599 SHAKS. Hen. K, v. i. 91 lie. .something leane to Cut-purse of quicke hand. 1605 Lear iv. vii. 35 The most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning. 1730-46 THOMSON Autumn 526 The quick dice .. leaping from the box. iSax SHELLEY Epipsych. 532 The young stars glance Between the quick bats in their twilight dance. lizard is 1861 THORNBURY Brit. Artists I. 247 The quick already out. 24. Of movement or succession : Rapid, swift. 1297 R. GLOUC. (Rolls) 4544 He sywede after be traytour mid wel quic pas. 1602 T. MIDDLETON in Shaks. Cent, of Praise (1879) 51 To keep quick time unto the owl. 1610 SHAKS. Temp. iv. i. 39 Incite them to quicke motion. 1632 LITHGOW Trav. vi. 298 The Dromidory hath a quicke and hard-reaching trot. 1655 STANLEY Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 63/2 The Body, which is continually in quick motion, is., called sether. 1759 JOHNSON Kasselas vi, There may be danger of too quick descent. 1771 yunitts Lett. lix. 310 There is a quick succession of subjects. 1860 TYNDALL Glac. n. xxvu. 384 The quicker flow of the centre causes this structure to bend. 25. Of an action, occurrence, process, etc. : That is done, happens, or takes place, rapidly or with speed ; esp. that is over within a short space of time; that is soon finished or completed. a 1548 HALL C/tren., Hen. VI 169 And therfore willed her in so quicke a mischief, to provide a hasty remedy. 1591 SHAKS. i Hen. K/, v. iii. 8 This speedy and quicke appearance argues proofe Of your accustom'd diligence. 1607 Tiinon i. i. 91 Morall . Paintings . That shall demonstrate these quicke blows of Fortune. 1634 MILTON Conins 284 They, .purpos'd quick return. Ibid, 841 She. .underwent a quick quic immortal change. 1664 MARVELL MA Corr. Wks. 1872-5 872-5 II. . 151 Give me a quick dispatch one way or other, a 1756 MRS. HEVWOOD New Present (1771) 263 A quick Way to take Grease out of Woollen Cloth. 1819 SHELLEY Mask of Anarchy Ixxv, With a quick and startling sound. i8 Proweth, Unb. in. iii. 135 It feeds the quick growth of the serpent vine. 1821 Epipsych. 547 The pebble-paven shore, Under the quick, faint kisses of the sea Trembles. 1854 RONALDS & RICHARDSON Chem, Technol. (ed. 2) I. 343 A quick process of distillation. t 26. Of steel : Breaking readily ; brittle. Obs. Steel .. is too 1677 MOXON Mech. Exerc. 55 The Spanish quick (as Workmen call it) that is, too brittle for Springs or Punches,
QUICK. 27. Of a curve, turn, etc. : Sharp. 1725 W. HALFPENNY Sound Building 9 If the Arch is equired to be quicker or flatter on the Hanse. 1793 "MEATON Edystone L. 81 A much quicker curve, or sweep r a less Radius. 1858 Skyring's Builders' Prices (ed. 48) ' Mouldings, .circular on plan, .quick sweep. fig* 1732 POPE Ep. Cobham 64 Tho' strong the bent, yet nek the turns of mind. 1781 CowPER^CVmnVy 544 The irns are quick, the polished points surprise. 28. With constructions : a. with to and infra. 1297 R. GLOUC. (Rolls) 9327 Slou to fijte & qujc to fie & bat nis no manhede. 1584 LYLY Campaspe ii. ii, A wit apt to conceive, and quick to answer. 1593 SHAKS. Rich. //, H. i. 234 Quicke is mine eare to heare of good towards him. 1808 SCOTT Marnt. \\. Introd. 95 The widow's deafen 'd ear Grows quick that lady's step to hear. 1870 CHURCH Spenser 139 Those who. .are quick to respond to English manliness and tenderness. b. with in, at *q_uikborne child i haue fprdon. 1824 BYRON Def. Transf. \. ii. Si His own twin, quickborn of the same womb. 1598 E. GILPIN Skial. (1878) 50 <strong>Here</strong> his wife's bated by some "quick-chapt youth. 1771 MRS. GRIFFITH Hist. Lady Barton I. 118 They are..*
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