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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..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots..

Velocity :: Velocity (n.) Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the number of feet passed over in a second. See the Note under Speed..

Speed :: Speed (n.) To go; to fare.

Speediness :: Speediness (n.) The quality or state of being speedy.

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

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

Sailer :: Sailer (n.) A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer..

Pick :: Pick (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch..

Dash :: Dash (n.) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race..

Quick :: Quick (superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick..

Speed :: Speed (n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.

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

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

Static :: Stathmograph (n.) A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.

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

Speedless :: Speedless (a.) Being without speed.

Dispatch :: Dispatch (v. t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches..

Galiot :: Galiot (n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers..

Outtravel :: Outtravel (v. t.) To exceed in speed o/ distance traveled.

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