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To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her eye. Pope. When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to the sun. Ten…

To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.

Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. [Obs.] "His jambeux were of quyrboilly." Chaucer.

s) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.

To take root; to become rooted. Evelyn.

up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

To become tattered. [Obs.]

To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.

To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. A malady that burns and rankles inward. Rowe. This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people. Burke.

To become less dense; to become thin and porous. "Earth rarefies to dew." Dryden.

To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.

To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith. In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me. Milton. It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts. Barrow. Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner. Ld. Lytton.

r of deduction or argumentation. Stewart. By the pure reason I mean the power by which we become possessed of principles. Coleridge. The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or rationalized understanding, comprehends. Coleridge.

Fig.: To make or to become hot. [Obs.] Some of his companions thereat reboyleth. Sir T. Elyot.

Capability of receiving; capacity. [Obs.] It has become a place of great receipt. Evelyn.

nd depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Dunglison.

To become reconciled. [Obs.]

To grow or become red; to blush. Appius reddens at each word you speak. Pope. He no sooner saw that her eye glistened and her cheek reddened than his obstinacy was at once subbued. Sir W. SCott.

To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.

lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing.