Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HIE
HIE, v.i. [Sax. higan, higian, to hasten, to urge forward, to press, to endeavor; also, hiegan and higgan, to be urgent, to strive.]
- To hasten; to move or run with haste; to go in haste; a word chiefly used in poetry. The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden.
- With the reciprocal pronoun; as, hie thee home.
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