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To declare or assert positively. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth. Milton.

See Aghast.

A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. Loudon. And wreaths of agnus castus others bore. Dryden.

At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.

roublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.

Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.

Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.

el-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel).

To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. Deut. xxvi. 17.

A light or hasty luncheon. Bait bug (Zoöl), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." Shak.

he plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." Steele.

Obscene; filthy; unchaste. "A bawdy story." Burke.

England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

To promise; to vow. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.

the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition. The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides Gen. xix. 12. To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead. Pope.