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quicks

noun

Meaning

  1. Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
  2. Plants used in making a quickset hedge
  3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
  4. Quitchgrass.
  5. A fast bowler.
  6. To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
  7. To quicken.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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