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ly followed by of. For he would learn their business secretly, And then inform his master hastily. Spenser. I am informed thoroughky of the cause. Shak.

Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. [Colloq. Eng.]

k or feed by licking up something. The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Sir K. Digby.

maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me. Latimer. -- To make at, to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack. -- To make away with. (a) To carry off. (b) To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate. (c) To kill; to destroy. -- To make off, to go away suddenly. -- To make out, to su…

One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc.

In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.

me as Ravehook. -- Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw. -- To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under Rap, v. t.

Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught. Rough diamond, an uncut diamond; hence, colloquially, a person of intrinsic worth under a rude exterior. -- Rough and ready. (a) Acting with offhand promptness and efficiency. "The rough and ready understanding." Lowell.…

To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

run over a child. -- To run riot, to go to excess. -- To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book. (b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate. -- To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease growing; to lose vi…

To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away. [Colloq. & Humorous, U.S.]

To write or draw hastily or awkwardly. Scratch out a pamphlet." Swift.

To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.

To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

Writing hastily or poorly. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

To move hastily; to scour. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame. Hastily he schifte him[self]. Piers Plowman. Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days, Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways. Tusser.

To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

ndom, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.