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Governor :: Governor (n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable..

Outride :: Outride (v. t.) To surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than.

Speed :: Speed (n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel..

Hastily :: Hastily (adv.) In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3..

Speed :: Speed (v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry..

Speedily :: Speedily (adv.) In a speedy manner.

Swift :: Swift (v. i.) Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.

Soon :: Soon (a.) Speedy; quick.

Speed :: Speed (n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare..

Sudden :: Sudden (a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed..

Swig :: Swiftness (n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc..

Veronica :: Veronica (n.) A genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. See Speedwell.

Student :: Studding sail () A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail..

Pimpernel :: Pimpernel (n.) A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather..

Moderate :: Moderate (a.) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed..

Speeder :: Speeder (n.) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.

Dispeed :: Dispeed (v. t.) To send off with speed; to dispatch.

Expeditive :: Expeditive (a.) Performing with speed.

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