n. An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. “To quote by-speeches.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To send hastily. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Despeeded certain of their crew. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + speed. ] To send off with speed; to dispatch. [ Obs. ] Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, Do&unr_;a Ximena. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A preface. [ Obs. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, “God speed you.” [ Written also as two separate words. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as fast; as, fast film. Opposite of slow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. performed at a high rate of speed; as, a high-speed auto chase on the freeway.
Syn. -- hot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A speech interposed between others. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong speech. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To excel in speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Outspeed the realized miracles of steam. Talfourd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Species; sort. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To make a speech; to harangue. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. speche, AS. sp&unr_;c, spr&unr_;, fr. specan, sprecan, to speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprāhha, G. sprache, Sw. spr&unr_;k, Dan. sprog. See Speak. ] 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue, lips, etc., the modulation being accomplished by changing the form of the cavity of the mouth and nose through the action of muscles which move their walls. [ 1913 Webster ]

O goode God! how gentle and how kind
Ye seemed by your speech and your visage
The day that maked was our marriage. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The acts of God . . . to human ears
Can nort without process of speech be told. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect. [ 1913 Webster ]

People of a strange speech and of an hard language. Ezek. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Talk; mention; common saying. [ 1913 Webster ]

The duke . . . did of me demand
What was the speech among the Londoners
Concerning the French journey. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. formal discourse in public; oration; harangue. [ 1913 Webster ]

The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. ny declaration of thoughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. Harangue; language; address; oration. See Harangue, and Language. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ See Spechify. ] The act of speechifying. [ Used humorously or in contempt. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [ Used humorously or in contempt. ] G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Speechified p. pr. & vb. n. Speechifying ] [ Speech + -fy. ] To make a speech; to harangue. [ Used derisively or humorously. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making a speech or speeches. [ Used derisively or humorously. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making a speech. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sp&unr_;d success, swiftness, from sp&unr_;wan to succeed; akin to D. spoedd, OHG. spuot success, spuot to succees, Skr. sphā to increase, grow fat. √170b. ] 1. Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success. “For common speed.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day. Gen. xxiv. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speed, to describe whose swiftness number fails. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success. [ Obs. ] “Hercules be thy speed!” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

God speed, Good speed; prosperity. See Godspeed. --
Speed gauge,
Speed indicator, and
Speed recorder (Mach.), devices for indicating or recording the rate of a body's 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Haste; swiftness; celerity; quickness; dispatch; expedition; hurry; acceleration. See Haste. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sped Speeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Speeding. ] [ AS. spēdan, fr. spēd, n.; akin to D. spoeden, G. sich sputen. See Speed, n. ] 1. To go; to fare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To warn him now he is too farre sped. Remedy of Love. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped;
The mightiest still upon the smallest fed. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fare well; to have success; to prosper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Save London, and send true lawyers their meed!
For whoso wants money with them shall not speed! Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I told ye then he should prevail, and speed
On his bad errand. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make haste; to move with celerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To be expedient. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.) [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor. “Fortune speed us!” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With rising gales that speed their happy flight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sped him thence home to his habitation. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judicial acts . . . are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo. “Sped with spavins.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped.
If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

God speed you,
them, etc., may God speed you; or, may you have good speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To dispatch; hasten; expedite; accelerate; hurry. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, speeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Spinning) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of speed (in any sense). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a speedful manner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a speedy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being speedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Speedier superl. Speediest. ] [ AS. spēdyg. ] Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will wish her speedy strength. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Darts, which not the good could shun,
The speedy ould outfly. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sphere. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ask. [ Scot. ] See Spere. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. D. speten. See Spit an iron prong. ] To stab. [ Obs. ] Gammer Gurton's Needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adapted for producing or for receiving either of two speeds; -- said of a power-transmitting device. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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. (Phon.) A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. [ From science fiction tales of spaceship drives operating by warping the shape of space or of time. ] literally, a speed faster than the speed of light; fig., an extremely high speed, usually the fastest possible; -- used only in the figurative sense except in fiction. [ PJC ]

(Bot.) A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America. [ 1913 Webster ]