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Ma :: Ma (conj.) But; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, Vivace, ma non troppo presto (i. e., lively, but not too quick)..

Quickhatch :: Quickhatch (n.) The wolverine.

Quickwork :: Quickwork (n.) The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.

Quickwork :: Quickwork (n.) The short planks between the portholes.

Clever :: Clever (a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert..

Smack :: Smack (v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting..

Tubbing :: Tubbing (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety..

Quitch Grass :: Quitch grass () A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix..

Promt :: Promt (superl.) Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; -- said of persons..

Queach :: Queach (v. i.) To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i..

Brachystochrone :: Brachystochrone (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid..

Bicker :: Bicker (v. i.) To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame..

Ten-strike :: Ten-strike (n.) Any quick, decisive stroke or act..

Flask :: Flask (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc..

Scalper :: Scalper (n.) A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market..

Sirt :: Sirt (n.) A quicksand.

Tirrit :: Tirrit (n.) A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror..

Presto :: Presto (a.) Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.

Trip :: Trip (n.) A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip..

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

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