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Forward; early; -- said of fruits. [Obs.]

Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.

A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. [U. S.]

To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]

Capable of being chased; fit for hunting. Gower.

for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

See Chasuble.

The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.

breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

Having gaps or a chasm. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

To make the movement called chassé; as, all chassé; chassé to the right or left.

See Chasse, n., above.

A French coasting lugger.

A white grape, esteemed for the table.