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Hast(e, n. Also: haist(e, hest, heast, eist. [ME. haste, hast (a 1300), OF. haste.] Haste, speed. Freq. with in or with.For other examples from 1384 to 1567 see Gudely a. 4 a.(a) 1397 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 166.
With all hast he sall giff chartyr and possessyovn erytabill to the sayd Gorge
c1400 Troy-bk. i. 50.
That ȝe in hast halde hyne ȝour way
Ib. ii. 812.
Pyrrus in all hast entrede syne
c1420 Wynt. viii. 4793.
He sayd, ‘na hast’
Ib. 4802.
For all hast that evyr thare was
c1450-2 Howlat 886.
Ilk foule … a fedder has tane, And lent to the howlat in hast
1473 Treas. Acc. I. 45.
For a bot that brocht our Lyone herald in hast to the King
1513 Doug. i. viii. 34 (R).
Quhare with grete hast com rynnyng Antheus
a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 1281.
Hope puts that hast into ȝour heid
1587-99 Hume 73/176.
If their be hast
(b) c1475 Wall. vi. 447.
Thi gowne and hois in haist thow put off syne
c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 13.
With that in haist … to the hege … I inthrang
1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 125.
Thar is sic haist in thi hed
1535 Stewart 1146.
Ouir greit haist cumis hulie speid
1543 Corr. M. Lorraine 6.
I salbe at your grace in all haist
1562-3 Winȝet I. 55/25.
[Any fault] in this werk … suld be impute to my haist and feruour
1596 Dalr. I. 286/4.
The king in haist meitis thame, and dingis thame hak
1622-6 Bisset II. 257/29.
The maister aucht to send in haist … for money
(c) c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxii. 30 (B).
He … handlit hir as he had hest
1574 Bk. Univ. Kirk I. 315.
He ... went in heaste out of the town
1579 Waus Corr. I. 205.
For skantnes of paper I wrait to yow in hest
1604 Reg. Privy C. VIII. 12.
The greitter heast is now requyrit
1661 Carnegie Lett. & Chart. 350.
Ye neid not to wse any preposterows heast in your cuming to me
1671 Rep. Sir Rob. Menzies MSS. 699.
It wer goode that sume advocatt wer sent hither in all heast
(d) 1620 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 183.
With all commoun eist and diligence

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