Haste /(hāst)/

1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

   The king's business required haste.

2. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

   I said in my haste, All men are liars.

imp. & p. p. Hasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hasting

1. To hasten; to hurry. [Archaic]

   I 'll haste the writer.

   They were troubled and hasted away.