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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To go quickly; hasten.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To hasten; go in haste: often with a reciprocal pronoun.
  2. To incite to action or haste; instigate; urge: with on.
  3. n. Haste; speed.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
  2. v. reflexive To hurry (oneself).
  3. n. Haste; diligence.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Rare, except in poetry To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
  2. n. obsolete Haste; diligence.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. move fast

Etymologies

  1. From Old English hīġian. Cognate with Dutch hijgen ("to pant"), German heichen ("to choke, gasp for breath"), Danish hige ("to aspire, long"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English hien, from Old English hīgian, to strive, exert oneself. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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