QUICKEN (2)

Quick″en, v. i. 1. 1. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her eye. Pope. When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to the sun. Tennyson. 2. 2. To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.