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QUICK , a word which, by origin, and in See also:

early and many surviving uses, meant " living," " alive." It is See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Ger. keck, lively, Du. kwik, and See also:Dan. kvik; cf. also Dan. kvaeg, See also:cattle. The See also:original See also:root is seen in Skt. jiva; See also:Lat. vivus, living, alive; Gr. (.3los, See also:life. In its original sense the See also:chief uses are such as " the quick and the dead," of the Apostles' Creed, a " quickset " hedge, i.e. consisting of slips of living See also:privet, See also:thorn, &c., the " quick," i.e. the See also:tender parts of the flesh under hard skin or particularly under the See also:nail. The phrase " quick with See also:child " is a See also:conversion of with a quick, i.e. living child. From the sense of having full vigour, living or lively qualities or movements, the word got its chief current meaning of possessing rapidity or See also:speed of See also:movement, See also:mental or See also:physical. It is thus used in the names of things which are in a See also:constant or easily aroused See also:condition of movement, e.g. " quicksand," loose See also:water-logged See also:sand, readily yielding to See also:weight or pressure, and " quicksilver," the common name of the See also:metal See also:mercury (q.v.).

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