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Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

(of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

(archaic) Alive, living.

(archaic, of a fetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.

(now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the fetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

(archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.

(archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.

(obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

(mining, of a vein of ore) Productive; not "dead" or barren.

Quickly, in a quick manner.

Answer quickly.

Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

Plants used in making a quickset hedge

The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

Quitchgrass.

(cricket) A fast bowler.

To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

(archaic, poetic) To quicken.