SPEED (2)

speed (2). Speed, n. quickness, haste, dispatch, success, issue

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Speed (spēd), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sped (spĕd), Speeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Speeding.] [[AS. spēdan, fr. spēd, n.; akin to D. spoeden, G. sich sputen. See Speed, n.]] 1. 1. To go; to fare.
To warn him now he is too farre sped. Remedy of Love. 2. 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. 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. 4. To make haste; to move with celerity.
I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. Shak. 5. 5. To be expedient. Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.)