See Also: stithy(dictionary)
speed(1)(dictionary)
Speed(money)
speed(2)(dictionary)
speed(medicine)
swimming speed(medicine)
film speed(medicine)
Prepayment speed(finance)
Speed - Poker(gambling)
speed trap(dictionary)

speed reading (oh) and stithy (iou)


speed reading (oh)



n [U]
the skill of reading very quickly

stithy (iou)



stithy noun & verb. Now chiefly arch. or poet. ME.
[Old Norse steei, from Germanic base also of STAND verb: infl. by assoc. with SMITHY. Cf. STITH noun.]
A. noun.
An anvil. ME.
Anatomy. The incus of the ear. rare. L16-E17.
A forge, a smithy. E17.
A disease of horses and cattle. E17-E18.
B. verb trans. Forge, shape by heating and hammering. LME-E17.