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Lewdness; unchastity. Shak.

To violate the chastity of; to debauch. Dryden.

To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.

Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks. Milton.

e; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. vi. 1. Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure. Milton.

To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.

down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury.

To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations. [R.] "Ejaculating to himself." Sir W. Scott.

Sudden; hasty. [Obs.] "Ejaculatory repentances, that take us by fits and starts." L'Estrange.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch. [Scot. & Local, Eng.]

A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney.

be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.

To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

e of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume.

. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble.

A conjurer who can raise spirits. [R.] Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit. Shak.

To expedite; to hasten. [Obs.]