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A confused noise, as of hasty speaking. [Colloq.]

To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.

rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope.

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still. She would command the hasty sun to stay. Spenser. Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first. Dryden. I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. Longfellow.

phy; anything written in shorthand. I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their hasty stenographs. Emerson.

equently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.

Sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Bullokar. -- Sub`i*ta"ne*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Subitaneous; sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Hales.

Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. [Obs.] Shak.

ubmission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation. Chaucer. But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise. Spenser.

Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush. [Written also sepawn, sepon, and suppawn.] [Local, U.S.]

Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.

f the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper. Remember with what mild And gracious temper he both heared and judged. Milton. The consequents of a certain ethical temper. J. H. Newman.

uction. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. Prov. xxi. 5. The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of mankind. Tillotson.

Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.

A glimpse; a hasty view. [Prov. Eng.]

Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition. [R.] Dryden.

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser.