n. Haste; diligence. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Hied p. pr. & vb. n. Hying. ] [ OE. hien, hihen, highen, AS. higian to hasten, strive; cf. L. ciere to put in motion, call upon, rouse, Gr. &unr_; to go, E. cite. ] To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun. [ Rare, except in poetry ] “My husband hies him home.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] Winter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "iero`s sacred + &unr_; bitter.] (med.) A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]

n. [ LL. hierarcha, Gr. &unr_;; "iero`s sacred (akin to Skr. ishiras vigorous, fresh, blooming) + &unr_; leader, ruler, fr. &unr_; to lead, rule: cf. F. hiérarque.] One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs. Milton.

{ } a. Pertaining to a hierarch. “The great hierarchal standard.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. hiérarchique. ] Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv. Syn. -- hierarchical, hierarchal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation. [ PJC ]

n. The principles or authority of a hierarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The more dominant hierarchism of the West. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Hierarchies [ Gr. 'ierarchi`a: cf. F. hiérarchie. ] 1. Dominion or authority in sacred things. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A rank or order of holy beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve
Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. Milton.

5. (Math., Logic, Computers) Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it; also, the entire set of ordering relations between such objects. The ordering relation between each object and the one above is called a hierarchical relation. Classification schemes, as in biology, usually form hierarchies. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. hieraticus, Gr. "ieratiko`s; akin to "iero`s sacred: cf. F. hiératique. ] Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason called hieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while the third, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No such distinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments; bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension. W. H. Ward (Johnson's Cyc.). [ 1913 Webster ]