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  1. quicking: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Quick)

adjective:  Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
adjective:  Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
adjective:  Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
adjective:  Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
adjective:  (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
adjective:  (archaic) Alive, living.
adjective:  (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
adjective:  (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
adjective:  (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
adjective:  (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
adjective:  (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
adjective:  (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
adjective:  (crosswording) Not cryptic.
adverb:  Quickly, in a quick manner.
adverb:  Answer quickly.
noun:  Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
noun:  Plants used in making a quickset hedge
noun:  The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
noun:  (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
noun:  Quitchgrass.
noun:  (cricket) A fast bowler.
verb:  (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
noun:  A surname.
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