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With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. -- n.

An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

Away from; clear from. [Obs.] Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands. Milton.

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

d in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. [Obs.] The ambush arose quickly out of their place. Josh. viii. 19. To lay an ambush, to post a force in ambush.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

iving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

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.

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.

The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.

Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne.

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.

Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.

Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton.

iate or incongruous; in a manner. -- As now, just now. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- As swythe, as quickly as possible. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- As well, also; too; besides. Addison. -- As well as, equally with, no less than. "I have understanding as well as you." Job xii. 3. -- As yet, until now; up to or at the present time; sti…

Lit.: Quicksilver; hence: pl. (Mining)