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th increased rapidity; -- used especially in the phrase con moto, directing to a somewhat quicker movement; as, andante con moto, a little more rapidly than andante, etc.

Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.

Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope.

The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.

In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.

To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

To walk quickly with the head bent forward; -- often with along. [Prov. Eng.]

To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.

To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. Pluto plants for breath from out his cell. Dryden.

usually in the plural with a collective sense. "Men of considerable parts." Burke. "Great quickness of parts." Macaulay. Which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. Shak.

sions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.

To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard. Thomson.

cording to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon. For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. B. Jonson.

or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.

Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind.

Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] Milton.

Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

derived from decomposition of previously formed proteids. The food substances are usually quickly translocated, those that accumulate being changed to starch, which appears in the cells almost simultaneously with the sugars. The chloroplasts perform photosynthesis only in light and within a certain range of temperature…

In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats. Lowell. "The fox's heart went pitapat." L'Estrange.