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Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.

In an alert manner; nimbly.

The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

otice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

Watchful; alert. Vigilant and erect attention of mind. Hooker.

Quick of perception; alert; sharp. [Scot.] Jamieson.

ence." Bacon. -- Presence of mind, that state of the mind in which all its faculties are alert, prompt, and acting harmoniously in obedience to the will, enabling one to reach, as it were spontaneously or by intuition, just conclusions in sudden emergencies.

sh challenge: "Who comes there" To be on the qui vive, to be on guard; to be watchful and alert, like a sentinel.

A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person. [Slang, Western U.S.]

isely; exactly; as, we shall start at ten o'clock sharp. [Colloq.] Look sharp, attend; be alert. [Colloq.]

Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. [Colloq.] Dickens. Thackeray.

Quick; lively' alert. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

nd, a tiptoe or on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.

r and strong sense." Dickens. He bore his age well, and seemed to retain a wiry vigor and alertness. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees. The alertness of the Yankee aspect. Hawthorne. Yankee clover. (Bot.) See Japan clover, under Japan.