Word Meanings - RAPIDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a rapid manner.

RAPIDLY
In a rapid manner.
ASTRIDE
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.
AHEAD
1. In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding. 2. Headlong; without restraint. L'Estrange. To go ahead. To go in advance. To go on onward. To push on in an enterprise. -- To get ahead of.
SPEEDILY
In a speedy manner.
EAGERLY
In an eager manner.
APACE
With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.
CARAPACE
The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
RAPACES
See ACCIPITRES
MEAGERLY; MEAGRELY
Poorly; thinly.