QUICK
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.
3. (Bot.)
Defn: Quitch grass. Tennyson.
QUICK
Quick, v. t. & i. Etym: [See Quicken.]
Defn: To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive. [Obs.] Chaucer.
QUICKBEAM
Quick"beam`, n. Etym: [A. S. cwicbeám.]
Defn: See Quicken tree.
QUICKEN
Quick"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. quickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Quickening.]
Etym: [AS. cwician. See Quick, a.]