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Causing horror; frightful. Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor.

To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.

ent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. Dryden. There was mouthing in hot haste. Byron.

A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.

Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement. Macaulay.

In haste; foothot. [Colloq.]

In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.

ality; 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 do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together. "Huddle up a peace." J. H. Newman. Let him forescat his work with timely care, Which else is huddled when the skies are fair. Dryden. Now, in all has…

Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.

Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. South. They hurried him abroad a bark. Shak.

An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural. [Colloq.] Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps. Swift.

lowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition. Tisiphone, that oft hast heard my prayer, Assist, if OEdipus deserve thy care. Pope. If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Matt. iv. 3.

In a ill manner; badly; weakly. How ill this taper burns! Shak. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

The Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists;

fetter; hence; to confine; to restrain from free action. Although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled. Milton.

less, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. The impatient man will not…

To people; to give a population to. [Obs.] Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.

Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper. The people, on their holidays, Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable. Milton.