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• Quick

  ·noun Quitch grass. II. Quick ·superl Pregnant; with child. III. Quick ·superl Fresh; bracing; sha...

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• Sand

  ·noun Courage; pluck; grit. II. Sand ·vt To drive upon the sand. III. Sand ·noun A single particle...

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• Double-quick

  ·noun Double-quick time, step, or march. II. Double-quick ·vi & ·vt To move, or cause to move, in d...

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• Quick-scented

  ·adj Acute of smell. ...

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• Quick-sighted

  ·adj Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern. ...

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• Quick-witted

  ·adj Having ready wit. ...

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• Quick-wittedness

  ·noun Readiness of wit. ...

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• quick-march

  , or quick-step. The ordinary pace is 3-1/4 miles to the hour, or 110 paces (275) feet to the minu...

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• quick match

  Used as a train to any charge to be fired rapidly, is made of cotton threads treated with a composit...

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• quick relief

  One who turns out speedily to relieve the watch before the sound is out of the bell. ...

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• quick saver

  A span formerly used to prevent the courses from bellying too much when off the wind. ...

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• quick-step

  See quick-march. ...

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• quick-work

  Generally signifies all that part of a ship which is under water when she is laden; it is also appli...

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• Sand-blind

  ·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. ...

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• Sand-lot

  ·add. ·adj Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, — hence, pert. to, or characteristic...

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• Sand Wharf

  See Wheatsheaf Wharf. ...

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• sand shark

  See blind shark ...

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• sand-lark

  n. name given in Australia to the Red-capped Dottrel, Charadrius ruficapilla, Temm. 1867. W. Richa...

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• sand-stay

  n. a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

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• sand-flea

  (Genus, orchestra. Leach.) A small crustacea common along the shores of Long Island, and other sandy...

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• sand-galls

  spots of sand forced up by the oozing of water. Norf. and Suff. ...

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• sand-streak

  See garboard-strake ...

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• sand-bags

  Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...

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• sand-drifts

  Hillocks of shifting sands, as on the deserts of Sahara, &c. ...

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• sand-hills

  Mounds of sand thrown up on the sea-shore by winds and eddies. They are mostly destitute of verdure....

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• sand-hopper

  A small creature (Talitra), resembling a shrimp, which abounds on some beaches. ...

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• sand-launce

  ♦ Ammodytes tobianus, a small eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand. ...

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• sand-piper

  A name applied to many species of small wading birds found on the sea-shore and banks of lakes and r...

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• sand-shot

  Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...

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• sand-strake

  A name sometimes given to the garboard-strake. ...

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• sand-warpt

  Left by the tide on a shoal. Also, striking on a shoal at half-flood. ...

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• shifting sand

  A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...

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• sand glass

  See short-time ...

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• Quick Apple Alley

  In Bishopsgate Street Without (W. Stow, 1722-Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the maps. ...

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• quick and nimble

  More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...

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• kiss-me-quick

  A homemade quilted bonnet which does not extend beyond the face. They are chiefly used to cover the ...

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• rope of sand

  A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...

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• sand and coral bank

  An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...

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