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A trumpet; a trump. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An aperture in a tromp.

Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic] I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak.

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

To quicken; to prompt. [Obs.] To appromt our invention. Bacon.

Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. "An apt wit." Johnson. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak.

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.

A prompter at a theater. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.

to the feet when running, as a hare. Johnson. To carry on, to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner. [Colloq.]

Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand. -- Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier,…

s, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain…

an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force. Coup de grace (ke gr Etym: [F.], the stroke of mercy with which an executioner ends by death the sufferings of the condemned; hence, a decisive, finishing stroke. -- Coup de main (ke m Etym: [F.] (Mil.), a su…

o perform in, or as in, a play. Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it Without a prompter. Shak.

A culverin. Falcon and culver on each tower Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower. Sir W. Scott.

o cut the knot or the Gordian knot, to dispose of a difficulty summarily; to solve it by prompt, arbitrary action, rather than by skill or patience. -- To cut lots, to determine lots by cuttings cards; to draw lots. -- To cut off. (a) To sever; to separate. I would to God, . . . The king had cut off my brother's. Sha…

The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.

Marked by promptness and decision. A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. J. Foster.