Vocabulary : Quicklime to Quicksilvering

Quicklime : Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
Quickly : Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
Quickness : The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. ;; Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. ;; Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility. ;; Sharpness; pungency of taste.
Quicksand : Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
Quick-scented : Acute of smell.

Quickset : A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn. ;; Made of quickset. ;; To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch.
Quick-sighted : Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern.
Quicksilver : The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
Quicksilvered : Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.
Quicksilvering : The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.

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