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lavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively. So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. Robynson (More's Utopia). They felt the smack of this world. Latimer.

Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]

Promptly; quickly; easily. Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide. Shak.

To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly. Thackeray.

Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.

Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc. "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired. Fuller.

In haste; quickly; rapidly.

Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.

Of short continuance; passing away quickly. Shak.

Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly. [Obs.] That thou doest, do thou swithe. Wyclif (John xiii. 27).

Quickly. See Swithe. [Obs.]

by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.

ting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12.

A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.

Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.

d or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.

(Naut.) A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, so made to shed the seas quickly.

To remove from condition of being a nun. [R.] Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller.

den. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.

To depart quickly; to depart from. [Written also vamos, and vamoose.] [Slang, Eng. & U. S.]