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2. In Scotland it is applied to any thingmade of rushes or privet, on which aperson may sit; it is therefore probablethat hassock and hask are the same.
Hast. The second person singular ofhave.
HASTE, n. s. [haste, Fr. haeste , Dut.]
1. Hurry; speed; nimbleness; precipita-ltion.
Spare him, death!
But O, thou wilt not, can’st not spare!
Haste hath never time to hear. Crashaw .
Our lines reform’d, and not compos’d in haste,Polish’d like marble, would like marble last;
But as the present, so the last age writ;
In both we find like negligence and wit. Waller.
In as much haste as I am, I cannot forbear givingan example. Dryden.
The wretched father running to their aidWith pious haste, but vain, they next invade. Dryd.
2. Passion; vehemence.
1 said in my haste all men are liars. Psalms.
To Haste. 1 v. n . [ haster, Fr. hasten ,
To Ha'sten./ Dut.]
1. To make haste; to be in a hurry; tobe busy; to be speedy.
I have not hastened from being a pastor to followthee. , Jer.
2. r Jo move with swiftness; eagerness;or hurry.
*Tis China , I do know him by bis gait;
He is a friend. Cinna, where haste you so? Shak.
They were troubled and hasted away. Psalms.
All those things are passed away like a shadow,and as a post that hasted by. Wisdom.
Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea,
Like mortal life to meet eternity. Denham.
These rites perform’d, the prince, without delay,Hastes to the nether world, his destin’d way. Dryd.
' To distant Sparta, and the spacious waste
Of sandy Pyle, the royal youth shall haste. Pope.
Soon as the sun awakes, the sprightly courtLeave their repose, and hasten to the sport. Prior.
To Haste. ) v. a. To push forward ;
To IIa'sten. J to urge on ; to precipi-tate ; to drive to a swifter pace.
Ixjt it be so hasted , that supper he ready at thefarthest by five of the clock. Shakesp.
All hopes of succour from your arms are past;
To save us now, you must our ruin haste. Dryden.
Each secs his lamp with difFrent lustre crown’d ;Each knows his course with difFrent periods bound,And in his passage through the liquid space,
No*- hastens, nor retards Ins neighbour's race. Prior.
HastenEr. n. s. [from hasten .] Onethat hastens or hurries.
Ha stily, adv. [from hasty.']
1. In a hurry; speedily; nimbly; quickly.
A voice that called loud and clear,
Come hither, hither, 0 come hastily! Spenser.
If your grace incline that we should live,
You must riot, sir, too hastily forgive. Waller.
The next to danger, hot pursu’d by fate,
Half clothhl, half naked, hastily retire. Dryden.
2. Rashly; precipitately.
Without considering consequences, we hastilyengaged in a war which hath cost us sixty millions.
Sieift.
3. Pass ion a tel}'; with vehemence.
Ha'stiness. n. s. [from hasty.]
1. Haste; speed.
2. Hurry ; precipitation.
A fellow being out of breath, or seeming to befor haste, with humble hastiness told Basihus.
Sidney.
3. Rash eagerness.
The turns of his verse, his breakings, his pro-priety, his numbers, and his gravity, I have asfar imitated as the poverty of our language, andthe hastiness of my performance, would allow.
Dryden.
There is most just cause to fear, lest our hasti-ness to embrace a thing of so perilous consequence,should cause posterity to feel those evils. Hooker.
4. Angry testiness; passionate vehemence.
Hastings, n. s . [from hasti /.] Peas
that come early.
The Jarge white and green hostings are not to beset till the cold is over. Mortimer.
Ha'sty. adj. [hastif, Fr. from haste;haestig, Dut.]
1. Quick ; speedy.
Is this the counsel that we two have shar’d,
The sisters vows, the hours that wc have spent,
When we have chid the hasty footed time
For parting us ! Shakesp.
2. Passionate; vehement.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understand-ing ; but he that is hasty of spirit cxalteth folly.
Proverbs,
3. Rash; precipitate.
See’st thou a man that is hasty in his words ?There is more hope of a fool than of him. Proverbs.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thineheart be hasty to utter any thing before God .
Eccles. v. 2.
4. Early ripe.
Beauty shall be a fading flower, and as the hastyfruit before the Summer. IsaiaH.
Ha'sty-pudding. 7i. s. A pudding
. made of milk and flour, boiled quicktogether; as also of oatmeal and waterboiled together.
Sure hasty-pndding is thy chiefest dishWith bullock’s liver, or some stinking fish. Dorset .
HAT. n. s. [Jjset, Sax . hatt, Genii.] Acover for the head.
She’s as big as he is; aud there’s her thrum hat,and her muffler too. Shakesp.
Out of mere ambition you have madeYour holy hat be stampt on the king’s coin. Shak.
His hat was like a helmet, or Spanish montero.
Bucon.
His hat adorn’d with wings disclos’d the god,
And in his hand he bore the slecp-compclling-rod.
Dryden.
Ha'trand. n. s. [hat and hand.] Asiring tied round the hat.
They had hats of blue velvet, with fine plumesof divers colours, set round like hatbands. Bacon .
Hoorn for the noble gladiator ! seeIlis coat and hatband shew his quality. Dryden.
IIa'tcase. n. s. [hat and case.] A slightbox for a hat.
I might mention a hatcase, which I would notexchange for all the beavers-in Great Britain .
Addison.
To HATCH, r. a. [hcckcn, Genn. as Skhi-tler thinks, from heghen , cghen, <1*3, egg,Sax .]
1. To produce young from eggs by thewarmth of incubation.
lie kindly spreads his spacious wine,
And hatches plenty for the ensuing Spring. Denham.
The tepid caves, and fens aud shores,
Their brood as numerous hatch from th* eggs, thatsoon
Bursting with kindly rapture, forth disclos’dTheir callow young. Milton
2. To quicken the ogg by incubation.
When they have laid such n number of eggs as
they can conveniently cover and hatch, they giveover, and begin to sit. Ilau.
Others hatch their eggs, and lend the birth, ’tillit is able to shift for itself. Addison.
3. To produce by precedent action.
W hich tiling they very well knew, and I doubtnot will easily confess, who live both to theirgreat toil, and grief, where the blasphemies ofArians are renewed by them ; who, to hatch theirheresy, have chosen those churches as fittest nestswhere Athanasius ’s creed is not heard. Hwker,
4. To form by meditation ; to contrive*
He was a man harmless and faithful, and ^
who never hatched any hopes prejudicial to fiking, bu-t always intended his safety and
5. [From hacker to cut.] To shade W
lines in drawing or graving. ^
Who first shall wound, through others aril* 5 'blood appearing fresh, rkaP 1 *'
Shall win this sword, silver’d and hatcht.
Such as Agamemnon and the hand ofShould hold up high in brass ! and suchAs venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver,
Should with a bond of air, strong as the aJ» c ' f)
On which heav’n rides, knit all the Grecian
To his experienced tongue.
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To HATCH, v.n.
1. To be in a state of growing quick ^
lie observed circumstances in eggs,
were hatching , which varied.
2. To be in a state of advance to**effect.
Hatch, n s. [from the verb.]
1. A brood excluded from the egg-
2. The act of exclusion from the egU
3. Disclosure; discovery.
Somethinc's ill his soul.
O’er which his melancholy sits on brood •
And, 1 do doubt, the hatch and the disclo*^#!'Will be some danger. Shakesp- . A
4. [Hffica, Sax . hecke, Dut. a h° it-half door; a door with opening 0perhaps from hacher to cut, a s "
is part of a door cut in two.
Something about, a little from tbe
In at the window, or else o’er the hatch.
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;>. [In the plural.] The doorsings by which they descend > rdeck or floor of a ship to anotherTo the king’s ship, invisible as tlu>«
There shall thou find the mariners few
Under the hatches. ^hak "
There she’s hid ; ,.
The mariners all under hatches stow * pojly/So seas, imped'd by winds with a (J ^Assault the sides, and o’er the hatches,
A ship was fasten’d to the shoreThe plank was ready luid for safe *| s beid’-.gjit*For shelter there the trembling shad 0 , j/ti-ulk’d, and under n prr^ e
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He assures us how this fathe r ho“ d aIl( ] tb^g-
And skipp'd and skulk
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To HATCH EL v a. [hach^ e 0°*
To heat flax so as to separatefrom the brittle part. llC r >". !£ I'*'
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