adj

• (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
  "She has a very quick temper."
• (archaic) Alive, living.
  "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:"
• (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
  "Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine."
• (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
  "she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours"

noun

• (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
  "the quick and the dead"
• (cricket) A fast bowler.

verb

• (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
• (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
  "I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey."