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Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.

To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. " Will duck his head aside. Swift.

Again; afterwards; soon; quickly. [Obs.] I wold never eft comen into the snare. Spenser.

Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution. Elastic bitumen. (Min.) See Elaterite. -- Elastic curve. (a) (Geom.) The curve made by a thin elastic rod fixed horizontally at…

A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.

With expedition; quickly. [Obs.]

In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast. Fast by, or Fast beside, close or near to; near at hand. He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by. Milton. Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. Pope.

To snap; to project quickly. The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with. Tylor.

er or token of defiance; the emblem of anarchists. -- To dip, the flag, to mlower it and quickly restore it to its place; -- done as a mark of respect. -- To hang out the white flag, to ask truce or quarter, or, in some cases, to manifest a friendly design by exhibiting a white flag. -- To hang the flag half-mast hi…

To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. Milton.

To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards. [R.] Lowell.

ke by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the others flowing off in a film or slime on the surface, though, perhaps, having a greater specific gravity than those that sink.

To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

ward. Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.

To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.

als, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.

To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly. I hastened to the spot whence the noise came. D

indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. Addison.

ars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy. Farrow.

To hurl one's self; to go quickly. [R.]