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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success. "For common speed." Chaucer. O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day. Gen. xxiv. 12.

A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.

One who, or that which, speeds.

Full of speed (in any sense). [Obs.]

In a speedful manner. [Obs.]

In a speedy manner.

The quality or state of being speedy.

Being without speed.

Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.

Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot. I will wish her speedy strength. Shak. Darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy ould outfly. Dryden.

To send hastily. [Obs.] Despeeded certain of their crew. Speed.

To send off with speed; to dispatch. [Obs.] Knolles. Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, DoSouthey.

Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.] Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10.

To excel in speed. Outspeed the realized miracles of steam. Talfourd.

Adapted for producing or for receiving either of two speeds; -- said of a power-transmitting device.

A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.

One who abides, or continues. [Obs.] "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney.

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

se of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle (Geom.), an angle less than a right angle.