To proceed enthusiastically, vigorously, or expertly.
To become quicker or faster.
To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
To grow bright; to brighten.
To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
To give life; to make alive.
To inspire or stimulate.
To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
To come back to life, to receive life.
Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.