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fully quyke, ne fully dead they were. Chaucer. The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. 2 Tim. iv. 1. Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire. Herbert.

Acute of smell.

Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern. Locke. --Quick"-sight`ed*ness, n.

Having ready wit Shak.

Readiness of wit. "Celtic quick-wittedness." M. Arnold.

See Quicken tree.

n inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite. The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead. Shak. Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize. South.

The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree.

One who, or that which, quickens.

The act or process of making or of becoming quick.

Quitch grass.

The wolverine.

Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.

Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. [Obs.] Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert.

gerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares! Longfellow.

Made of quickset. Dates and pomegranates on the quickset hedges. Walpole.

The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.

Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.

The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.