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Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what 
to do in the end thereof. Prov. xxv. 8. 
[< ME. hastinesse; < 
In ixi i/ + -ness.] The state or character of be- 
ing nasty, in any sense of that word; quick- 
ness; promptitude; rashness; irritability. 
The vndiscrete hastiness of the emperor Claudius caused 
hasteler 
hastelert, . [ME., equiv. to OF. hasteor, 1ms- 
teui; F. lidtetir (as defined); < haste, a spit; 
cf. hastier, linstnti-r^.'] An officer of the kitch- hastiness (has_ti-nes), M. 
en, in charge of the roast meats. 
This hasteler, pasteler and potagere. 
Litter Cure Cocorum, p. 1. 
hasten (ha'sn), r. [A mod. extension of haste 1 , 
be rapid, speedy, or quick; make haste: ap- 
plied primarily to voluntary action. 
Prometheus therefore, hastened to the invention of flre. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, ii., Expl. 
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, 
So do our minutes hasten to their end. 
Shale., Sonnets, Ix. 
I hastened to the spot whence the noise came. 
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. 
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates and men decay. 
Ooldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 51. 
= Syn Hasten, Hurry. To hasten is to work, move, etc., 
quickly, but properly not too quickly ; to hurry is to go 
too fast for dignity, comfort, or thoroughness : as, to has- 
ten to tell a piece of good news ; to hasten the erection of 
a building; to hurry through a lesson; to look hurried. 
While hasten has come to be thus used only in a good 
sense, haste, n., hasty, and hastiness retain a bad meaning 
as well as a good : as, the book was evidently written in 
haste : he had a hasty temper ; he had occasion to regret 
Sir T. Hlyot, The Governour, ii. (i. 
These men's hastiness the warier sort of you doth not 
commend. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., viii. 
But Epiphanius was made up of hastiness and credulity, 
and is never to be trusted.where he speaks of a miracle. 
Jortin, On Eccles. Hist. 
hat 
2. Specifically, in the United States, a batter 
made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water, 
boiled till thick enough to be palatable, and 
eaten with milk, or sometimes with butter or 
syrup; mush. 
Thy name is Hasty Pudding! thus our sires 
Were wont to greet thee fuming from their fires ; . . . 
In haste the boiling caldron o er the blaze 
Receives and cooks the ready-powdered maize. 
In haste 'tis serv'd; and then in equal Tiaste, 
With cooling milk, we make the sweet repast. 
J. Barlow, Hasty Pudding, i. 
hasty-witted (has'ti-wif'ed), a. Rash ; incon- 
siderate. 
hasting (has'ting), a. and . [Ppr. of haste, v. 
Cf. OF. Iiastivel, later hastiveau, a hasting-ap- 
fle or -pear, dim. of hastif, hasty: see hastive.] 
. a. Maturing early: said chiefly of fruits 
and vegetables, and only in composition : as, 
hastiug-a,pp\e, etc. 
II. n. An early fruit or vegetable : applied, 
in the plural, especially to early peas. 
Ficusprcecox [L.]. Figue hastice [F.]. A rathe flg ripen- 
ed before the time : an hasting. Nomenclator. 
Poires mi pommes hastivet [F.J, hustings, such as are 
soonest ripe. Cotgrace. 
1), n. An apple 
The 
A pear that 
ve 8 ctMure"' Indeed ' **"" and Ao *"" es ' usually con " hasting-apple (has' ting -ap 
vey censure^ TQ cauge to m(m) or ac( . with celer _ that matures early. 
ity; cause to make haste; drive or urge for- hastmg-harnesst (has tmg-har'nes), n 
wnvrl Bvnpflitfi harness used in the tilt or just. 
VV J M ! . t? A Uc til LO. _ A . xl_ /i. 1 '"\ 
Yet for all that theimyght hem hasten,tU* e other were hastmg-pear (has ting-par), . 
vpon hem er thei inyght be half a-raied of her harneyse. matures early. 
Merlin (E. E. T. s.), ii. 153. hastitet, [ME., < OF. hastete, contr. of lias- 
Sorrowe ne neede be hastened on, tirete : see hastieite.] Haste ; rapidity. Hal- 
For he will come, without calling, anone. litoell 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. Then coom a doom i n lautiu 
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. To hem that longe had spared be. 
Ps. Iv. S. Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. CantaK f. 19. (Halhwell.) 
The British . . . werejoined by two companies of gren- ftastivet, . [< ME. hastive, hastif, < OF. hastif 
Er n , Hist. Discourse at Concord. em ^ <* > 1,' ns te, 'i&rte : see haste 1 .] 
hastener 1 (ha'sn-er), M. [< hasten + -er 1 .] One jj asty _ - 
1. 
who or that which hastens or urges forward. 
Pride and indigence, the two great haxteners of modern 
poems. Johnson, Eambler, No. 169. 
hastener 2 (ha'sn-er). n. [An accom. (as if 
'that which hastens' the cooking) of hastier 
or haster, q. v.] Same as haster. [Prov. Eng.] 
haster (has'ter), n. [A contr. of hastier (cf. 
2. Hasting; forward; early, as fruit. 
hastivelyt, a-dv. [ME. hastifly, hastifliche ; < 
hastive + -ly 2 .] Hastily. Chaucer. 
hastivitet, [ME., also hastyvyte; < OF. has- 
tivcte, hastivite, < hastif, hasty : see hastive.] 
Haste; hastiness; rashness. Halliwell. 
Vengeaunce and wrathe in an hastyvyte, 
,... v ,, L > Wyth an unstedefast speryte of indyscrecioun. 
hastened), or ult. < OF. hastier, haster, a spit, MS. Cantab. Ft. i. 6, f. 137. (Halliwell.) 
the rack on which the 
or rack to hold a number 
spit: see haste^.] A metal stand for keeping gp it turn's: see tester.] Same as haster. 
in the heat upon a joint while it is roasting hasty (has'ti), a. [< ME. hasty (= OFries. has- 
before the fire. tin = OD. haestigh, D. hoastig = MLG. hastich 
hasteryt. _[ME., also hastere; cf. hasteler, 
spit turns, a frame Jjagtlert, . [< ME. hastlere, hastiler (ML. has- 
er of spits, < haste, a talarius), < OF. hastier, the rack on which the 
UOIDVCfJ. J I, ?' 
hastened.] Roast meat. 
Fyrst to jow I wylle schawe 
Tho poyntes of cure, al by rawe, 
Of potage, hastery, and bakun mete. 
Liber Cure Cocorum, p. 1. 
liastift, a. See hastive. 
hastiflyt, adv. See hastively. 
hastifolious (has-ti-fo'li-us), a. [< L. hasta, 
spear, + folium, leaf.] In but., having hastate 
leaves. See hastate. 
hastiform (has'ti -form), a. [< L. hasta, a 
spear, + forma, form.] Same as hastate. 
hastiheadt, n. [ME. hastihede; < hasty + 
-head.] Haste. 
For eche of hem in hastihede 
Shal other slea with deathes wounde. 
Oower, Conf. Amant., v. 
hastile (has'til), o. [Improp. as adj., < L. hos- 
tile, n., the shaft of a spear, a spear, < hasta, a 
spear: see hastate.] In hot., same as hastate, 2. 
hastiludet (has'ti-lud), n. [< L. hasta, a spear, 
+ liulus, play.] Spear-play: a name given to 
justs or tilts, and less accurately to tourneys 
or tournaments. See these words. 
Such a circumstance . . . would naturally have been 
commemorated ... by its conversion into a device and 
motto for the dresses at an approachinr l - '-' 
= G. hastig = Sw. Dan. hastig); < haste, n., + 
-y 1 . Cf. hastive.] I. Moving or acting with 
haste; quick; speedy: opposed to slow. 
Be not hasty to go out of his sight. Eccles. viii. 3. 
2. Eager; precipitate; rash; inconsiderate; 
acting or arising from heedless impulse or pas- 
sion: opposed to deliberate. 
I found a sayinge of Socrates to be most trewe, "that 
ill men be more hastie, than good men be forwarde, to 
prosecute their purposes." Aschaw, The Scholemaster, i. 
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is 
more hope of a fool than of him. Prov. \\i\. 20. 
Take no unkindness of his hasty words. 
Shak., T. of the S., iv. 3. 
Mr. Carlyle's method is accordingly altogether pictorial, 
his hasty temper making narrative wearisome to him. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 135. 
3. Requiring haste or immediate action. 
This axeth hast, and of an hasty thing 
Men may nought preche or make tarying. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 359. 
This Tuesday morning your man brought me a letter, 
which (if he had not found me at London) I see he had a 
hasty commandment to have brought to Micham. 
Donne, Letters, vi. 
4. Early ripe ; forward ; hasting. 
The hasty fruit before the summer. Isa. xxviii. 4. 
. hasty-footed ( h,s'ti-fut ; ed),. Nimble; swift 
, hasti- of foot: as, "hasty-footed time, Shak., M..N. D., 
(hat), n. [< ME. hat, hatte, < AS. hat, pi. 
hatttas, a hat (variously glossed by L. pileus, 
galerus, mitra, 
tiara), = Icel. 
hottr, hattr, a -jj ETilfi v \C 
hood or cowl, = /* 
Sw. hatt = Dan. 
I/at, a hat; per- 
haps = L. cassis 
(for *cadtis%), a 
helmet, akin to 
cosa,ahut, >ult. 
E. cassock and 
chasuble, q. v. 
Cf.Skt.-v/c/iAad, 
cover, cover 
over. Not found 
in HG. ; the G. 
luil. a hat, is 
different, = E. 
hood; but there 
is prob. a re- 
mote connec- 
tion: see hood 
and heed.] 1. 
A covering for 
the head; spe- 
cifically, ahead- 
dress worn in 
the open air, 
having a crown, 
sides, and a 
brim. Hats are 
made of various 
materials, as felt, 
silk, wool, straw, 
etc., and vary great- 
ly in form and style; and they are worn, with charac- 
teristic differences of shape, hy both men and women. 
Bonnets are sometimes loosely called hats. 
Thei hadden hattes of nn steill a-bove theire coiffes of 
Iren vpon theire heedes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 260. 
I want to finish trimming my hat (bonnet she meant). 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, vii. 
"Hullo tho'," says East, . . . "this'll never do haven't 
you got a hat ? we never wear caps here." 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 5. 
Near me sat 
Hypatia in her new spring hat. 
T. B. Aldrich, Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 38. 
2. The layer of tan-bark spread over hides in 
a tan-pit. 3. In a smelting-furnace, a de- 
pressed place in the tunnel-head designed to 
detain gases. 4. In some soap-coppers and 
the like, a depressed chamber in the bottom, 
provided with a tap for drawing off the con- 
tents : designed to collect impurities that settle. 
The copper, provided with a hat to receive impurities 
that subside, and to enable spent lye to be removed com- 
pletely by the draw-off. 
JT. L. Carpenter, Soap and Candles, p. 156. 
Cardinal's hat. (o) See cardinal. (6) In her., a repre- 
sentation of the red hat, having the tassels on each side 
arranged as described under cordon. Chimney-pot hat, 
a hat with a high, nearly cylindrical crown ana a rela- 
tively narrow brim : a common head-dress of men in the 
nineteenth century. Also called pot-hat, plug-hat, and 
stovepipe hut or stovepipe. Cocked hat. See cock?. 
Copataln hat. See copatain. Crush hat. SeecnwA- 
hat. Gainsborough hat, a hat with a broad brim, sini- 
Forms of Hats worn in England in the i6th, 
I7th, and i8th centuries. 
2. time of Henry VIII.; 3. time of Mary ; 
me of Elizabeth ; 5, 6, time of James and 
Charles I. ; 7,8, time of the Commonwealth; 
ime of William HI.; ri-i6, i8th cen- 
tury. 
hastily (has'ti-li), adv. [< ME. 
liche (cf. AS. haistlice, violently ; = D. haaste- _. 
'ijk, haastiglijk = MLG. hastelike = MHG. has- hasty-pudding (has'ti-pud'ing), n. 1. A thick S^J**^^'L2^,& I *! ) 
?_>-_ -i __j__i_-_i .- *. . _j.-i-_i _ T__I i. (../:... -L_J_J.__ jj; A f :ii,' n si dAM>ul<kH open, an opeid-imi. uipsy imu o 
century. GlbUS hat [named from the inventor, a hatter 
in London], a hat the crown of which collapses and can be 
licateliehen = Icel. hastarliga 
= Dan. hastelig); < hasty + -fy 2 .] 1. In a hasty 
manner; quickly; speedily. 
And yf me lacketh to lyue by the lawe wol that ich take 
Ther ich may haue hit hastelokest for ich am hefd of lawe. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 471. 
The Mone envyrounethc the Erthe more hastyly than 
ony othere Planete. Mancteville, Travels, p. 162. 
Half clothed, half naked, hastily retire. Dryden. 
2. Precipitately; rashly; from sudden impulse 
or excitement. 
batter or pudding made of milk and flour boiled 
quickly together; also, oatmeal and water boil- 
ed together; porridge. 
This country produces a good deal of meliza or Turkish 
wheat, which is what we call Indian corn. . . . The meal 
of this grain goes by the name of polenta, and makes ex- 
cellent haxtii-pudding, being very nourishing, and counted 
an admirable pectoral. Smollett, Travels, xvii. 
The Hot Hasty-pudding Eaters . . . contend for su- 
periority by swallowing the greatest quantity of hot hasty- 
puddiny in the shortest time. 
Strutt, Sports and 1'astimes, p. 476. 
estate. Same as cap of maintmanM (which see, under 
maintenance'). Hat of Mont Alban or Montalban. 
Same as chapeau Montaubyn (which see, under chapeau). 
Iron hat, in mining, same as gossan. [ U. S. ] Panama 
hat, a fine plaited hat made of the young leaves (before ex- 
pansion) of a stemless screw-pine (Carludavica palmata) 
by the natives of Central America. They are commonly 
worn in the West Indies and frequently on the American 
continent. Red hat, a cardinal s hat. See cardinal. 
It may buy the red hat yet, C. Kingsley, Westward Ho. 
To give one a (one's) halt, to lift the hat to one, or to 
take it off in his presence ; salute by lifting the hat. 
