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Like a ghost; ghastly.

To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest. Thou hast girded me with strength. Ps. xviii. 39. To gird on, to put on; to fasten around or to one securely, like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword. Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. 1 King…

To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak.

unexpected gleams of joi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust. Massinger. -- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n.

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.

Haste; ardent desire to go. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.

Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady. [R.] This grief (cancerous ulcers) hastened the end of that famous mathematician, Mr. Harriot. Wood. To come to grief, to meet with calamity, accident, defeat, ruin, etc., causing grief; to turn out badly. [Colloq.]

A snare; a gin. [Obs.] Like a bird that hasteth to his grin. Remedy of Love.

Hastate.

Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes." Shak.

In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.

Hastily; without delay or respite.

To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun. [Rare, except in poetry] "My husband hies him home." Shak. The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden.

To hie. [Obs.] Men must high them apace, and make haste. Holland.

To guess; to light upon or discover. "Thou hast hit it." Shak.

Chaste; faithfuk; virtuous. Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. Shak.

Chastity; modesty. Chaucer. To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

e; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity. If she have forgot Honor and virtue. Shak. Godlike erect, with native honor clad. Milton.