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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.

To quicken; to make alive. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. Shak.

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. Reid.

To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken. [Obs.] "[To] acuate the blood." Harvey.

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

iving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

To quicken; to prompt. [Obs.] To appromt our invention. Bacon.

To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.

ifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an.

To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.

ve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants. To expedite your glorious march. Milton.

Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc. Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations. Shak.