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Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth.

That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

In a brisk manner; nimbly.

Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.

Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.

In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.

Brisk; joyously active; lively. 'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond.

With alacrity; briskly.

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

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

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

Sprightly; lively; brisk. Richardson.

Brisk, lively. -- n.

The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation. Suspended animation, temporary suspension of the vital functions, as in persons nearly drowned.

To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun. You have so bestirred your valor. Shak. Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton.

Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Arhaic] A brag young fellow. B. Jonson.

Fresh; brisk; full of life. [Colloq.]

Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.

Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.

A brisk, dashing fellow. [Slang Obs.] Shak.