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Word Meanings - ENQUICKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.

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  • QUICKEN TREE
    The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum,
  • QUICKENS
    Quitch grass.
  • QUICKENER
    One who, or that which, quickens.
  • QUICKENING
    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. (more info) 1. The
  • ALIVE
    1. Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive. 2. In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep
  • QUICKEN
    To shorten the radius of ; to make sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced. Syn. -- To revive; resuscitate; animate; reinvigorate; vivify; refresh; stimulate; sharpen; incite; hasten; accelerate; expedite;
  • ENQUICKEN
    To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
  • REQUICKEN
    To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. Shak.
  • CALIVER
    An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. Shak.

 

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