quick

1. (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.Examples: "She has a very quick temper."; "He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired."; "The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended."Synonyms: hotheaded, rattish, short-tempered, snippish, snippy

2. (archaic) Alive, living.Examples: "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:"; "Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire."; "The inmost oratory of my soul, Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead, Is black with grief eternal for thy sake."Synonyms: extantarchaic

3. (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.Examples: "Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine."archaic

4. (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.Examples: "she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours"; "Invention sleeps within a skull No longer quick with light, The hive that hummed in every cell Is now sealed honey-tight."; "When sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick."Synonyms: expectingarchaic

5. (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.Synonyms: runningarchaic

6. (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.Examples: "And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs."archaic