2. Noun. haste ¹
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Definition of Hying
1. hie [v] - See also: hie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hying
Literary usage of Hying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... other cases they are allowed to march with all their arms, drums beating, and
colours hying, On one's own hook. On one's own responsibility or account. ..."
2. A History of the Christian Church by Karl von Hase, Charles Edward Blumenthal, Conway Phelps Wing (1870)
"Adam of Bremen, hying at the centre of the great northern bishopric over which
he presided, with considerable historical skill relates the history of the ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... for the continued application of the names of recent genera to the ancient
inhabitants of the globe. age. Almost contemporaneous with the first hying ..."
4. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1875)
"with the food, and must be expelled or destroyed, just as we should destroy a
snake or any other reptile hying in the stomach or intestines. ..."
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