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Quick :: Quick (superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.

Unequity :: Unequity (n.) Want of equity or uprightness; injustice; wickedness; iniquity.

Anacreontic :: Anacreontic (n.) A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

Ledger :: Ledger (n.) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight..

Sprigtail :: Sprigtail (n.) The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail..

Upright :: Upright (n.) Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame..

Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..

Sprang :: Sprigtail (n.) The sharp-tailed grouse.

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast..

Gibbet :: Gibbet (n.) A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning..

Piccolo :: Piccolo (n.) A small upright piano.

Ronde :: Ronde (n.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look..

Puppet :: Puppet (n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

Honest :: Honest (a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession..

Blithe :: Blithe (a.) Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit..

Erect :: Erect (a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached..

Julep :: "Julep (n.) A beverage composed of brandy, whisky, or some other spirituous liquor, with sugar, pounded ice, and sprigs of mint; -- called also mint julep..

Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security..

Mercurialize :: Mercurialize (v. i.) To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious..

Prigidity :: Prigidity (n.) Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age..

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