Definition of haste

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Haste (n.) Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals..

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Chasteness :: Chasteness (n.) Chastity; purity.
Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
Pursue :: Pursue (v. t.) To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare..
Skim :: Skim (v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.
Chastity :: Chastity (n.) Chasteness.
Percursory :: Percursory (a.) Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.
Haste :: Haste (n.) To hasten; to hurry.
Hastening :: Hastening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haste.
Frail :: Frail (superl) Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women..
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..
Dishonest :: Dishonest (a.) Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
Dispatch :: Dispatch (v. t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste..
Black Book :: Black book () A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution..
Honest :: Honest (a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
Douse :: Douse (v. t.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail..
Post :: Post (n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier..
Hotfoot :: Hotfoot (adv.) In haste; foothot.
Chastening :: Chastening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaste.
Advance :: Advance (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten..
Chastened :: Chastened (imp. & p. p.) of Chaste.
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