Definition of "hie"

hie

/haɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present hies, present participle hying or hieing, simple past and past participle hied
1. (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
  Quotations
  Hath pleased you, and eased you, and sweet slumber seized you. And now to bed I hie.
  1605, “Rest Sweet Nymphs”, Francis Pilkington (music)
  The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.
  1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
2. (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
  Quotations
  My husband hies him home.
  c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iv]
  Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall.
  1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café