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In a rapid manner.

ess in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

se of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

m attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

ed with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. -- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect.

To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows. Hark how it rains and blows ! Walton.

y blue grass, a species of grass (Poa pratensis) which has running rootstocks and spreads rapidly. It is valuable as a pasture grass, as it endures both winter and drought better than other kinds, and is very nutritious.

To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. [Colloq. U. S.]

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

tore, as something borrowed, to its owner. -- To bring by the lee (Naut.), to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To h…

y colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.

A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.

To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly. Begin his witless note apace to chatter. Spenser.

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.