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Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

s, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.

At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.

ntation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

Exaction of forced service; compulsion. [Obs.] Speed.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

s arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival. Another arrival still more important was speedily announced. Macaulay.

A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

To remit or retrench a part; -- with of. Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine. Dryden.

Forthwith; speedily; quickly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. Shak.

ce, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.

ern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel 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.

e, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott.

Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.

A short contest, or trial, of speed. Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

Any brief, violent evertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.