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To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.

Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift.

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

ng or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.

Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.

To behead; to decapitate. [Obs.] Shak.

A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.

Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.

Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable. All the talent required is to be hot, to be heady, -- to be violent on one side or the other. Sir W. Temple.

The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

Like a home or a home circle. Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.

A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house. Shak.

Inhospitable. [Obs.] "A hostless house." Spenser.

A hospital.

One who exercises hospitality, or has plentiful and hospitable household. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. [Obs.] Tell me, softly and hastly, what's in the pantry Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe. Sir W. Scott.

To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. And wild amazement hurries up and down The little number of your doubtful friends. Shak.

The science which treats of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc. -- Hy`e*to*log"ic*al, a.

beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression. "This hyperbolical epitaph." Fuller. Hyperbolic functions (Math.), certain functions which have relations to the hyperbola corresponding to those which sines, cosines, tangents, etc., have to the circle; and hence, called hyperbolic sines, hyperbolic…