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heye

heye is the obsolete form of hie.

Meaning of hie

Verb

hie (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.
    • But after her lover Amyntas hied.1599, “Fair Phyllis”, John Farmer (music)
  2. (poetic, reflexive) To hurry (oneself).
    • 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]...
  3. (transitive) To urge (a horse) to the left with a cry of "hie".
    Antonyms:
    hup

See all 4 meanings of hie

Forms of heye

pluralheyes

Questions about heye

What is heye the obsolete form of?
Heye is the obsolete form of hie.

Words near heye in the dictionary

  1. heyducs
  2. heyduk
  3. heyduke
  4. heydukes
  5. heyduks
  6. heye
  7. heyem
  8. Heyen
  9. Heyens
  10. Heyer
  11. Heyers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heye (page history and authors); hie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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