KJV Dictionary - quick
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QUICK
QUICK, v.i.
To stir; to move. Not in use.
QUICK, a. If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the L. vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.
1. Primarily, alive; living; opposed to dead or unanimated; as quick flesh. Lev. 13.
The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead. 2Tim. 4.
In this sense, the word is obsolete, except in some compounds or in particular phrases.
2. Swift; hasty; done with celerity; as quick dispatch.
3. Speedy; done or occurring in a short time; as a quick return of profits.
Oft he to her his charge of quick return repeated.
4. Active; brisk; nimble; prompt ready. He is remarkably quick in his motions. He is a man of quick parts.
5. Moving with rapidity or celerity; as quick time in music.
Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.
QUICK, adv.
1. Nimbly; with celerity; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; be quick.
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
2. Soon; in a short time; without delay. Go, and return quick.
QUICK, n.
1. A living animal. Obs.
2. The living flesh; sensible parts; as penetrating to the quick; stung to the quick; cut to the quick.
3. Living shrubs or trees; as a ditch or bank set with quick.
QUICK, v.t. To revive; to make alive. Obs.
QUICK, v.i. To become alive. Obs.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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