Category:Rapid

Rap"id, a. Etym: [l. rapidus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to Snatch or hurry away; perhaps akin to gr. rapide. Cf. Harpy, ravish.]

1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid Stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton.

2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick Sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; Rapid succession.

3. Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

Rapid Rap"id, n. Etym: [cf. F. rapide. See rapid, a.]

Defn: the part of a river where the current moves with great Swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the Plural; as, the lachine rapids in the st. Lawrence. Row, brothers, row the stream runs fast, the rapids are near, and the Daylight's past. Moore.