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In a rigid manner; stiffly.

In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.

Sordidness. [Obs.]

In a splendid manner; magnificently.

In a squalid manner.

In a staid manner, sedately.

In a torpid manner.

Proudly; haughtily. [A Latinism. R.] One of great merit turbidly resents them. Young.

In a valid manner; so as to be valid.

in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

ttitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

Severely; rigidly; sternly. A doctrine austerely logical. Macaulay.

To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

rallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. -- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect.

To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows. Hark how it rains and blows ! Walton.