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79 words match “HASTY”

HASTY a. 6 definitions

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

HASTY PUDDING n. 2 definitions

A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. [U. S.]

Foolishly hasty. [R.]

Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.

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

ANTICIPATION n.

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

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.

Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.

To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon. He had just time to get in and clap to the door. Locke Clap an extinguaisher upon your irony. Lamb.

Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.

To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]

Cursory; hasty. [Obs.] With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden.

Not hasty or sudden; slow. Hooker. His enunciation was so deliberate. W. Wirt.

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.

Hasty; hurried. [Obs.] -- Fes"ti*nate*ly, adv. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure. Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. Matt. xxiv. 20. Fain by flight to save themselves. Shak.