quick

(noun): Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
(noun): Plants used in making a quickset hedge
(noun): The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
(noun): Quitchgrass.
(noun): A fast bowler.
(verb): To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
(verb): To quicken.
(adjective): Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
(adjective): Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
(adjective): Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
(adjective): Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
(adjective): Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
(adjective): Alive, living.
(adjective): Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
(adjective): Of water: flowing.
(adjective): Burning, flammable, fiery.
(adjective): Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
(adjective): (of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
(adverb): Quickly, in a quick manner.