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A pretender to philosophy. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.

A mountain peak, etc., in California.

A large-flowered garden variety of the oxeye daisy.

A Californian fir (Abies shastensis).

A game like California Jack, except that the pack drawn from is turned face down.

A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. [Written also sastra.]

Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Obs.] Whitefoot.

A public sale or auction. [R.] Bp. Burnet.

Not chaste; not continent; lewd. -- Un*chaste"ly, adv. -- Un*chaste"ness, n.

The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; incontinence.

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.

Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.

To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Goldsmith.

An apparatus for hastening acetification. Knight.

n; to succeed in gaining; to win. Some are born great, some achieve greatness. Shak. Thou hast achieved our liberty. Milton.

Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

e to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.