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
Look not to the west where the wild birds nest And the winds are hieing To sweep away sleep from the forest, And tatter the shrouds of sable silence Lit by the fire-fly's morris-dance.
From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice
"I am for leaving our feast and hieing us back to the sanctuary."
From On the Firing Line by Hamilton Brock Fuller
Tell me, people, hither hieing, Have you seen my runaway?
From Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field
Other dogs of loyal cheer Bounded at the whistle clear, Up the woodside hieing; This dog only watch'd in reach Of a faintly-utter'd speech, Or a louder sighing.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
