hie
verb (used without object)
to hasten; speed; go in haste.
is hieing
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present progressiveof hie (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The old year is dying, Its last hour is hieing Over the verge; The night winds are plying, And are mournfully sighing Its funeral dirge.
From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher
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
