Definition of quicken

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Quicken (a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed..

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Quickbeam :: Quickbeam (n.) See Quicken tree.
Accelerative :: Accelerative (a.) Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.
Vivify :: Vivify (v. t.) To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.
Quickening :: Quickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quicke.
Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc..
Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life..
Quickened :: quickened (imp. & p. p.) of Quicke.
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced..
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed..
Chirrup :: Chirrup (v. t.) To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening..
Live :: Live (v. i.) To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith..
Livingness :: Livingness (n.) The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
Quickening :: Quickening (n.) The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
Animate :: Animate (v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body..
Enquicken :: Enquicken (v. t.) To quicken; to make alive.
Inspiration :: Inspiration (n.) The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc..
Quicken :: Quicken (v. i.) To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb..
Wicken Tree :: Wicken tree () Same as Quicken tree.
Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
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