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om virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. Man is frail, and prone to evil. Jer. Taylor.

To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.

unexpected gleams of joi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust. Massinger. -- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n.

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.

Haste; ardent desire to go. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.

Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady. [R.] This grief (cancerous ulcers) hastened the end of that famous mathematician, Mr. Harriot. Wood. To come to grief, to meet with calamity, accident, defeat, ruin, etc., causing grief; to turn out badly. [Colloq.]

A snare; a gin. [Obs.] Like a bird that hasteth to his grin. Remedy of Love.

In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

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

To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun. [Rare, except in poetry] "My husband hies him home." Shak. The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden.

To hie. [Obs.] Men must high them apace, and make haste. Holland.

Chaste; faithfuk; virtuous. Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. Shak.

ent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. Dryden. There was mouthing in hot haste. Byron.

In haste; foothot. [Colloq.]

To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together. "Huddle up a peace." J. H. Newman. Let him forescat his work with timely care, Which else is huddled when the skies are fair. Dryden. Now, in all has…

Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.

Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.