Speeding
speed (?), n. (AS. sp?dsuccess, swiftness, from sp?wan to succeed; akin to D.
spoedd, OHG. spuot success, spuot to succees,
Skr. spha to increase, grow fat. r170b.)
1. Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue;
success. For common speed. Chaucer.
O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me
good speed this day. Gen. xxiv. 12.
2. The act or state of moving swiftly;
swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the
speed a horse or a vessel.
Speed, to describe whose swiftness number
fails. Milton.
f In kinematics, speedis sometimes used to denote the
amount of velocity without regard to direction of motion, while
velocity is not regarded as known unless both the direction and
the amount are known.
3. One who, or that which, causes or promotes
speed or success. (Obs.) Hercules be thy speed!
Shak.
God speed, Good speed; prosperity. See
Godspeed. -- Speed gauge, Speed
indicator, a Speed recorder
(Mach.), devices for indicating or recording the rate of a
bodys motion, as the number of revolutions of a shaft in a given
time. -- Speed lathe (Mach.), a
power lathe with a rapidly revolving spindle, for turning small
objects, for polishing, etc.; a hand lathe. -- Speed
pulley, a cone pulley with steps.
Syn. -- Haste; swiftness; celerity; quickness; dispatch;
expedition; hurry; acceleration. See Haste.
speed (sped), v. i. (imp. d), Speeded;
p. pr. dan, fr. sped, n.; akin to D.
spoeden, G. sich sputen. See Speed,
n.) 1. To go; to fare.
(Obs.)
To warn him now he is too farre
sped. Remedy of Love.
2. To experience in going; to have any
condition, good or ill; to fare. Shak.
Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped;
The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.
Waller.
3. To fare well; to have success; to
prosper.
Save London, and send true lawyers their meed!
For whoso wants money with them shall not speed!
Lydgate.
I told ye then he should prevail, and speed
On his bad errand. Milton.
4. To make haste; to move with
celerity.
I have speeded hither with the very extremest
inch of possibility. Shak.
5. To be expedient. (Obs.) Wyclif (2
Cor. xii. 1.)
speed , v. t. 1. Tocause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
Fortune speed us! Shak.
With rising gales that speed their happy
flight. Dryden.
2. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with
celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to
hurry.
He sped him thence home to his
habitation. Fairfax.
3. To hasten to a conclusion; to
expedite.
Judicial acts . . . are sped in open court at
the instance of one or both of the parties.
Ayliffe.
4. To hurry to destruction; to put an end to;
to ruin; to undo. Sped with spavins. Shak.
A dire dilemma! either way I m sped.
If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead.
Pope.
5. To wish success or god fortune to, in any
undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting
guest. Pope.
God speed you, them, etc.,
may God speed you; or, may you have good speed.
Syn. -- To dispatch; hasten; expedite; accelerate;
hurry.
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