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Torrent :: Torrent (n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence..

Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

Mushroom :: Mushroom (n.) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn..

Register :: Register (n.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.

Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down..

Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Singe :: Singe (v. t.) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it..

Rotifera :: Rotifera (n.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits..

Spin :: Spin (v. i.) To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis..

Galloping :: Galloping (a.) Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies..

Smoke :: Smoke (n.) To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

Ejaculation :: Ejaculation (n.) The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.

Shake :: Shake (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.

Sniffing :: Sniffing (n.) A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose..

Thrifty :: Thrifty (superl.) Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt..

Squirt :: Squirt (v. i.) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids..

Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their

Fireball :: Fireball (n.) A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding..

Tremolo :: Tremolo (n.) The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect..

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