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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Archaic Appearing or ripening early in the year, as flowers or fruit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See rath.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. poetic ripening or blooming early.
  2. adv. obsolete Quickly.
  3. adv. poetic Early in the morning.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old English hraþe ("quickly"), from Proto-Germanic *hraþô (“quickly, rapidly”), from *hraþaz (“quick, rapid”). See above. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, quick, from Old English hræd, hræth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • fbharjo precocious: early blooming Mar 17, 2007

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