The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead.
--Shak.
Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that
quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
-- South.
2. To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional
energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to
hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or
thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed.
3. (Shipbuilding) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make
(a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to
make its curve more pronounced.
Syn: To revive; resuscitate; animate; reinvigorate; vivify;
refresh; stimulate; sharpen; incite; hasten; accelerate;
expedite; dispatch; speed.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the
last that dies. -- Ray.
And keener lightnings quicken in her eye. --Pope.
When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to
the sun. --Tennyson.
2. To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated;
as, his pulse quickened.