Monday, January 24, 2005

Word of the Day

hie • \HYE\ • verb
*1 : to go quickly : hasten
2 : to cause (oneself) to go quickly

Example sentence:
"In the summer, Nick, his wife, Arabella, and their three-year-old daughter, Lily, hie off to the country—yes, to a little stone cottage in Wales." (Charles Gandee, Vogue, February 1996)

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