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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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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