Quick grass. (Bot.) See Quitch grass. -- Quick match. See under Match.
-- Quick vein (Mining), a vein of ore which is productive, not barren.
-- Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol
to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. -- Quick
water, quicksilver water. -- Quick with child, pregnant with a living
child.
Syn. -- Speedy; expeditious; swift; rapid; hasty; prompt; ready;
active; brisk; nimble; fleet; alert; agile; lively; sprightly.
Quick (?), adv. In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with
haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are
performed.
Locke.
Quick, n. 1. That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant;
especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living
hedge.
The works . . . are curiously hedged with quick.
Evelyn.
2. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of
serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of
a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as,
to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to
taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
This test nippeth, . . . this toucheth the quick.
Latimer.
How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the
quick of the difference !
Fuller.