hie
verb (used without object)
to hasten; speed; go in haste.
hieing
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present participleof hie.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Grabbing all that dough and hieing out for parts unknown.
From Time Magazine Archive
O fare ye well, my comrades, pleasant throng, 10Ye who together far from homesteads flying, By many various ways come homewards hieing.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Bathes now the billow Winged steed flying, Sea-horse is longing to flee from the strand; Glad will he follow Him who is hieing Far from his home and his well beloved land.
From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Martha A. Lyon Holcomb
Mice are flying, Thousand-colored, herd-wise hieing Through the moss and through the heather!
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
So Chanticleer gazed as one distraught for a full told hour, after which he turned to the Fox and said, "O my brother, I behold and can distinguish a bird flying and a dust-trail hieing."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
