QUICK MARCH. that hit be do. 1433 MISYN Fire of Love 81 Now qwhykliar, now slawlyer, it warmes. 1544 PHAER Rcgim. Lyfe (1553] E iij, A little good wine, .is the chiefe thing that quickliest restoreth him. 1596 DALRYMPLE tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 95 Breid wil thay make . . quiklier [in this way] nor vthirwyse. 1629 EARLE Microcosm., High-spirited Matt (Arb.) 92 A man quickly fired, and quickly laid downe with satisfaction. 1677 JOHNSON in Ray's Corr. (1848) 128 Possibly their stomach may digest very quickly. 1747 WESLEY Prim. Physic. (1762) 117 This quickly heals even cut Veins and Sinews. xSiz A. T. THOMSON Land. Disp. (1818) 607 On this account decoctions should be quickly made. 1861 FLOR. NIGHTINGALE Nursing 41 Leave the sick room quickly and come into it quickly, not suddenly, nor with a rush. c. Denoting that there is little or no interval between a given point in time and the doing of an act or happening of an event (freq. also implying a or b) ; without delay ; very soon, shortly. CMOS LAV. 4697 He.. bad hine quicliche ajeuen him his quene. 1330 Arth. 4//m
QUICKSILVER. N. CAEPENTEK Gtog. Del. n. v. . . (1635) 71 Quick-siluer will gather it selfe to a round body. 1669 WORI.IDGF. Syst. Agric. (1681) 309 This Column of Quick-silver in the Tube, is supported by the weight of the Air Ambient. i?8j COWPER spattered qu ,- Quicksilver is met with pure in minute globules, but for the purposes of commerce it is obtained from one of its ores, cinnabar, a red sulphide of mercury. 2. Used allusively, a. with reference to the quick motion of which the metal is capable. 1562 J. HEVWOOD Proa, fy Epigr. (1867) 165 She is quycke syluer. 1621 BACON Hen, VII 102 Perkin (who was made of Quick-silver, which is hard to hold or imprison) began to stirre. 1820 SCOTT Abbot xix, Thou hast quicksilver in the veins of thee to a certainty. 1889 Roy's Own Paper 17 Aug. 730/3, I . . had come off the journey with my veins full of quicksilver. b. with ref. to its use in mirrors (see the vb.). 1851 ROBERTSON Serm. Ser. n. xii. (1864) 166 The dull quicksilver of their own selfishness behind the glass. 3. atlrib. and Comb. a. attributive, in senses ' consisting of, containing, pertaining to, etc. quick- Quick time. Mil. A rate of marching which in the British army now consists of 128 paces of 33 inches each (=118 yards) in a minute, or four miles an hour. Formerly the rate per minute was 108, then u6, and latterly 120 paces of 30 inches each (cf. quots. and DOUBLE-QUICK). VOL. VIII. 57 1802 JAMES Milit. Diet., Quick Step, or Quick Time, is 108 steps of 30 inches each, or feet in 270 a minute, and is the step used in all filings of divisions. Quickest Step, or Quickest Time is 120 steps of 30 inches each, or 300 feet in a minute. 1833 Regul. Instr. Cavalry \. 18 The Quick Step, The cadence of the slow pace having become.. habitual to the recruits, they are. .to be taught to march in 'quick time', which is 108 steps in a minute, each of 30 inches. 1876 VOYLE & STEVENSON Milit. Diet., Quicktime, a pace soldiers ordinarily march at, viz. 3-3 miles an hour. Ibid. s. v. Step, Quick step, a military step of 30 inches, with a cadence. .of 116 per minute, in the British army. It constitutes what is technically called quick time in marching, b. quasi-flf/z'. In quick time. 1816 SCOTT Old Mort. x, Come, come, Mrs. Janet march, troop- quick time. 1 t Quick tree. Obs. rare . -= QUICKEN sb.i 1548 TURNER Names Herbes (E. D. S.) 54 Myrica, otherwyse named tamarix . . The Poticaries of London vse nowe for thys quik tree. Quid (kwid), jA.3 [var. of CUD sb. q.v.] A piece of something (usu. of tobacco), suitable to be held in the mouth and chewed. 1727 in BAILEY vol. II. 1731 Gentl. Mag.\. 349 Spitting about the church . . As if he d got a quid m's mouth. 1780 Beetle-nut and Chinam, of which G. KEATE Ptlcw Isl. 27 QUIDDITY. they had always a quid in their mouths. 1833 MARRYAT /'. Simple (1863) 89 Ihe first lieutenant, .perceived that he had a quid of tobacco in his cheek. 1883 STEVENSON Silverado Sq. (1886)68 His mind was.. revolving the problem of existence like a quid of gum. fig. 1805 W. HUNTER in Naval Chron. XIII. 35, 1 chewed my Quid of bitterness. v^ Obs. Forms : i t Quid, cwyddiau, 2-3 cwidden, quidd(i)en. [OE. cwiddian, f. tavttC QUIDE (q.v.).] trans, and intr. To say, speak. c looo ALFRIC Horn. 11^388 Crist hi befran hu men cwyddodon be him. 1200 OKMIN 3048 patt illke word wass cwiddedd aer. 1-1205 LAY. .v. 9825 Bi-)>enc Jm a ine quides ^ Jm sulf quiddest. c 1275 'Woman Samaria 55 In O. . Misc. 85 Nv quidde)> men, J>at cumen is Messyas. Quid, v2 [f. QUID sb*] 1. intr. To chew tobacco to ; chew the cud. 1773 in ASH. 1778 Gentl. Mag. July 311/1 The cow chews her cud, and the man, when he chews tobacco, calls it quidding. 1893 Surrey Gloss., Ouidding, chewing the cud. silver', as quicksilver bath, battery, earth, field, globe, mine, ore, plaster, ship, tank,valve,water,etc. 1552 HULOET, Quyckesyluer earth, antrax. a 1631 DONNE Poems, Apparition, In a cold bath. Quicksilver 1685 Lonti. Gaz. No. 1996/1 The Quick-Silver Ships may be expected this month at Cadiz. 1731 MRS. DELANV Antoliiog. (1861) III. 53 Quick-silver-water is the most effectual remedy for worms. 1756-7 tr. Keysler's Traa. (1760) IV. 152 Cinnabar orquicksilver ore. 1839 MARRYAT Phant. Ship iii. (1874) 25 In the centre of the ceiling hung a quicksilver globe, a common ornament in those days. 1877 RAYMOND Statist. Mines ff Mining 10 A very important quicksilver-field is about to be opened in the far north, laid. 260 A.. clever arrangement of quicksilver-tanks. b. attrib. in sense ' resembling quicksilver (in quickness of movement) ', as quicksilver mind, rebel, rogue, temper. 1655 GURNALL Chr. in Arm. V. 4 (1669) 94/1 Labour therefore in hearing the Word to fix thy quick-silver mind. 1676 W. HUBBARD Happiness of People 29 These are Inguicta ingenia of Quick-silver tempers. 1796 EARL BAL- CARRES in Bryan Edwards Proc. Maroon Negroes (1796) 35 Until such time as these quick-silver rebels are under lock and key. 1863 COWDEN CLARKE Shales. Char. xiv. 360 That prince of quicksilver rogues Master Autolycus. C. objective, and obj. genitive, as quicksilverfeeder, -fixation, -producing adj., -reduction, etc. 1834 MACAULAY Ess., Pitt (1887) 306 The periwig company, and the Spanish-jack-ass-company, and the quicksilverfixation-company. 1877 RAYMOND Statist. Mines
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