quick

1. (adj) Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. 2. (adj) Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. 3. (adj) Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. 4. (adj) Mentally agile, alert, perceptive. 5. (adj) (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered. 6. (adv) Quickly, in a quick manner. 7. (adv) Answer quickly. 8. (n) Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. 9. (n) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. 10. (n) (cricket) A fast bowler. 11. (adj) (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren 12. (adj) (crosswording) Not cryptic. 13. (adj) Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress. 14. (n) Plants used in making a quickset hedge 15. (v) (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid. 16. (adj) (archaic) Alive, living. 17. (adj) (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus. 18. (adj) (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling. 19. (adj) (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant. 20. (adj) (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery. 21. (adj) (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. 22. (n) (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”). 23. (v) (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken. 24. (n) Quitchgrass. 25. (n) A surname.