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To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. [Obs.] The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye. Spectator.

The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's pecularities. Fairholt.

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.

To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.

etc. The reptile race culminated in the secondary era. Dana. The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating. Motley.

Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.

To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart Pope.

Like a dart; rapidly.

To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron. The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. Sir W. Scott.

To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize. If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized. A. Cyc.

To represent in words; to describe vividly. Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley.

grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. Goldsmith.

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.

In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives. -- n. (Med.)

As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

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