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Enhance :: Enhance (v. i.) To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest..

Trill :: Trill (v. i.) To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle..

Bird-witted :: Bird-witted (a.) Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.

Stickleback :: Stickle (v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall..

Jabber :: "Jabber (v. t.) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French..

Roughdraw :: Roughdraw (v. t.) To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.

Quaver :: Quaver (v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse..

Bore :: Bore (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel..

Whisk :: Whisk (n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff..

Add :: Add (v. i.) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly..

Palpitate :: Palpitate (v. i.) To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement..

Tarantella :: Tarantella (n.) A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia..

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

Ostrich :: Ostrich (n.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high..

Velvet :: Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.

Gribble :: Gribble (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America..

Twinkle :: Twinkle (n.) A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated..

Explosive :: Explosive (n.) An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine..

Throb :: Throb (v. i.) To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc..

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