Definition of rapid

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Rapid (a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence..

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Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf..
Skim :: Skim (v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper..
Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
Sprint :: Sprint (v. i.) To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
Torrent :: Torrent (n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
Gabble :: Gabble (n.) Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
Bird-witted :: Bird-witted (a.) Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water..
Squirt :: Squirt (v. i.) Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate..
Tantivy :: Tantivy (n.) A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush..
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry..
Volant :: Volant (a.) Nimble; light and quick; active; rapid.
Vortex :: Vortex (n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices..
Ensweep :: Ensweep (v. t.) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly.
Shower :: Shower (n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
Lightning :: Lightning (n.) A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder..
Hasten :: Hasten (v. i.) To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
Slowly :: Slowly (adv.) In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.
Move :: Move (v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly..
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