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- English Word Quickhatch Definition The wolverine.
- English Word Quicklime Definition Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
- English Word Quickly Definition Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
- English Word Quickness Definition The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
- English Word Quickness Definition Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.
- English Word Quickness Definition Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
- English Word Quickness Definition Sharpness; pungency of taste.
- English Word Quicksand Definition Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
- English Word Quickset Definition A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
- English Word Quickset Definition Made of quickset.
- English Word Quickset Definition To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch.
- English Word Quicksilver Definition The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
- English Word Quicksilvered Definition Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.
- English Word Quicksilvering Definition The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
- English Word Quickstep Definition A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
- English Word Quickwork Definition All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
- English Word Quickwork Definition The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
- English Word Quickwork Definition The short planks between the portholes.
- English Word Quid Definition A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
- English Word Quid Definition To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.