quick (subs., orig Copy link Outline 1. In animals2. of plants • quick (subs., orig. the adj.), a part which has life. 1. In animals: the living flesh (opp. to insensible parts, as cuticle, nails, hair, horns), vīvum (n. of adj. used as subs.): to cut back (or down) to the q., ad vivum resecare; cf. extrema pars ipsius unguis ad v. resecatur, Col. 6, 12, 3 (cf. fig. neque id ad vivum reseco, I don't wish to be understood too strictly, Cic. Am. 5, 18). Fig.: to wound a person's feelings deeply: v. to pain: to grieve: to sting: to hurt: I've touched him to the q., *commovi hominem (Ainsw.): I've long been stung to the q. by the thought, etc., jamdudum meum ille pectus pungit aculeus Quid, etc., Pl. Trin. 4, 2, 158. To sting to the q., mordĕo, mŏmordi, morsum, 2, with valde: cf. valde me momorderunt epistolae tuae, Cic. Att. 13, 12: pass., cf. morderi dictis, Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 25; m. opprobriis falsis, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 38. 2. of plants: v. QUICKSET.