performed with little or no delay; " an immediate reply to my letter"; " prompt obedience"; " was quick to respond"; " a straightaway denial"

apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; " a quick mind"; " a ready wit"

any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain ( as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

easily aroused or excited; " a quick temper"; " a warm temper"

Pregnant; with child.

Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.

Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.

Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.

Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.

In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.

That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.

The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.

To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.

Alive; living; animate; - opposed to dead or inanimate.

Rapid; swift; as, quick in action; nimble; as, quick on one's feet; alert; ready; as, a quick eye; quick wit; easily excited; hasty; as, a quick temper; sensitive; having life.

With haste; rapidly.

The living flesh; as, the quick under the nail of a finger or toe; the feelings; as, she was hurt to the quick; a hedge of growing shrubs.

Quickly.

Quickness.

Living, moving: lively: speedy: rapid: nimble: ready.

Without delay: rapidly: soon.

A living animal or plant: the living: the living flesh: the sensitive parts.

Having life.

A living person; sensitive flesh; sensitiveness.

Living; brisk; swift; prompt.

Rapidly; soon.

Done in a short time; rapid; swift; alert; sprightly.

Irritable.

That which has life; any vital or sensitive part.

Quickly; rapidly.

Living; done with celerity; speedy; characterized by activity or readiness; sprightly; sharp in discerning; sharp.

Nimbly; with celerity.

The living flesh; sensible parts; living shrubs or trees.

Done or occurring in a short time; active; alive; living; sprightly; ready; swift; nimble.

Speedily; without delay; in a short time.

The living flesh; the living, as " the quick and the dead"; sensitive parts or points; a living plant- applied to the hawthorn.

This is the way it was: Let me tell it to you quick. – T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Be quick about it, then. – Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Various

Funny how quick these fellows can see a thing. – The Underdog by F. Hopkinson Smith

I will have the young man's shoulder in quick enough. – The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

The quick and the dead . – The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie

You can't be too quick. – Masterman and Son by W. J. Dawson

It is I, he said, who have something to say to you, and I'd like to get it over quick. – The Master Mummer by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Quick as thought the boy decided that there was only one course open to him. – The Boy Scouts On The Range by Lieut. Howard Payson

Get here as quick as the good Lord will let you! – The Hammer of Thor by Charles Willard Diffin

But she was very quick. – Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

Take the women in, quick! – The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland

Flora's heart went quick and little. – The Coast of Chance by Esther Chamberlain Lucia Chamberlain

Can't you get to bed quick? – The Doctor A Tale Of The Rockies by Ralph Connor

Oh, Mother, come quick! – Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show by Laura Lee Hope

He did not mean to hurt Grizel to the quick. – Tommy and Grizel by J.M. Barrie

She gave him one quick look and said: " That is one of the things she has never told me and I didn't meet her until after she had married him." – Witness For The Defence by A.E.W. Mason

If you see or hear any one coming, get back as quick as you can. – The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Quick is the word! – Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables

" He was too quick. – A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss