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Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Expedition :: Expedition (n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

Expeditious :: Expeditious (a.) Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger..

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse..

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

Expedite :: Expedite (a.) Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.

Dispatch :: Dispatch (v. t.) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform..

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

Sprint :: Sprint (v. i.) To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.

Metrograph :: Metrograph (n.) An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.

Whirl :: Whirl (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.

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

Course :: Course (v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins..

Certiorari :: Certiorari (n.) A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court..

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..

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

Log :: Log (n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book..

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

Speeding :: Speeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spee.

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

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