- Hastening - Increase of speed - Quickening - Stepping up - The act of accelerating, or the state of being
accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves
toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to
retardation.
- A light sail set at the side of a principal or square
sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent
to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of
Sail.