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To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.

Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.

ge South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

r imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.

To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. [R.] Thomson.

A term applied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic.

Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

g fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.

Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

ns performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. -- Fire eater. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a h…

A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.

], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows. Hand over fist (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.

To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf. Spenser.

In a fleet manner; rapidly.

To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. Hooker.

sh deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1. -- Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.

ion; disorder. Pope. Flutter wheel, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.

To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.

Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.