intransitive. Used to express various kinds of rapid or forcible motion, as of water flowing, missiles flying through the air, sparks flying upwards…

Of a person or living thing: To pass swiftly and suddenly from one place to another; to precipitate oneself, rush, dart. Also with adverbs, esp. off…

intransitive. To move quickly; to rush; to dart; to shoot. Frequently with in or into. Obsolete.

intransitive. To dash, rush; to dart out.

intransitive. To make a sudden movement; to dash, fly, rush, spring, start. Of light: To flash. Of tears, water: To pour, rush. Occasionally with…

intransitive. To move suddenly or rapidly; to rush, start, spring. Also to gird forth, to gird forward, to gird out, to gird together, to gird up. Obs…

intransitive. To go swiftly and suddenly; to dart, rush; to make a rapid or forced march. Chiefly with adverb, away, down, in, on.

intransitive. To dart or spring; to strike or thrust rapidly. Obsolete.

intransitive. To move suddenly, quickly, or energetically; to spring, dart, dash. Cf. sprent, v. 1.

intransitive. gen. (†occasionally reflexive). To make a sudden brisk movement; to move hastily or nimbly; to slip or shift quickly; almost always…

intransitive. To skirmish. Also: to move quickly, dart.

To move rapidly, esp. in an oblique or transverse direction; to dart, shoot; to spring aside.

intransitive. To spring, leap, bound; to move rapidly. Also with cognate object (quot. 1684). Also figurative.

intransitive. with it, in same sense (see also whippet, v.); also figurative in to whip it in with, ? to ingratiate oneself with. Obsolete.

To move swiftly or quickly; to dart or frisk. Chiefly with adverbs, as about, in, up and down, or prepositions, as among.

intransitive. To move with a jerk or spring; to spring, dart. Of a winged creature: To take short quick flights. Also with about, away, up.

Of persons and animals: To move with a start or rush; to spring, start, hasten, rush. to fly to arms: to take up arms on a sudden. to fly in the fa…

intransitive. To move quickly or convulsively; to spring, start; to dart, to run. Cf. sprint, v. 1.

intransitive. To move as or like flame.

To move like a dart; to spring or start with a sudden rapid motion; to shoot. Also figurative.

intransitive. To move quickly, dart, shoot. Also figurative.

To move suddenly with a leap, bound, or the like movement; to ‘spring’, ‘dart’, ‘shoot’.

intransitive. To shoot or dart swiftly, esp. in an oblique direction; to run lightly and rapidly; to make off hastily. Scottish and dialect.

slang or colloquial. To go suddenly and swiftly, to dart; to go away hurriedly. Often with adverbs.

intransitive. To move with quick sudden action; to move or dart with sudden turns; to move jerkily to and fro. Now esp. in Rugby and Aeronautics; cf…

intransitive. To move quickly, like an arrow in flight; to dart. Also transitive in to arrow one's way.

intransitive. To go with a sudden swift motion; to dart, to shoot. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To move lightly and quickly; to dart.

intransitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. To perform any action as quickly as possible, in as short a space of time as possible, or…

intransitive. To move suddenly and swiftly; to dart; to depart hurriedly. Also of a price, cost, etc.: to rise rapidly or to an exorbitant degree.

intransitive. To fling oneself as though hurled by a catapult.

intransitive.

slang. transitive (with it) and intransitive. North American. To move quickly; (also) to leave, go away, esp. quickly or abruptly. Frequently with…