Rapture: alternatives and connections

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…

Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a k…

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.

To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, a…

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick…

Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.

To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls.

Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.

To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth,…

To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.

The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

In a hurrying manner.