Word Meanings - SWIFTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.

Related words: (words related to SWIFTLY)

• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• QUICKSILVER
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
• QUICKHATCH
  The wolverine.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• 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,
• QUICKWORK
  All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.
• QUICK-WITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• SWIFTLY
  In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
• QUICKENS
  Quitch grass.
• QUICK-SCENTED
  Acute of smell.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.