speed

v. t. 1. To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor. “Fortune speed us!” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With rising gales that speed their happy flight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sped him thence home to his habitation. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judicial acts . . . are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo. “Sped with spavins.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped.
If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

God speed you,
them, etc., may God speed you; or, may you have good speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To dispatch; hasten; expedite; accelerate; hurry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sped Speeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Speeding. ] [ AS. spēdan, fr. spēd, n.; akin to D. spoeden, G. sich sputen. See Speed, n. ] 1. To go; to fare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To warn him now he is too farre sped. Remedy of Love. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped;
The mightiest still upon the smallest fed. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fare well; to have success; to prosper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Save London, and send true lawyers their meed!
For whoso wants money with them shall not speed! Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I told ye then he should prevail, and speed
On his bad errand. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make haste; to move with celerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To be expedient. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.) [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, speeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Spinning) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of speed (in any sense). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a speedful manner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a speedy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being speedy. [ 1913 Webster ]