overhie, v. ? Obs.
(əʊvəˈhaɪ)
[f. over- 22 (14), 4 + hie v.1 to haste. (OE. had oferh{iacu}ᵹian in sense ‘overreach’.)]
1. trans. To overtake by hastening after. Sc.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce iii. 737 Bot the kingis folk that..war Deliuer off fute, thaim gan our-hy. c 1420 Avow. Arthur xix, He prekut oute prestely, And aure-hiet him radly. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 145 Quhome tha ouir⁓hyit into ony place, Tha dang thame doun as dourlie as tha docht. 1634–5 Mary Spencer Evidence in Cal. State Papers, She would run along after it to overtake it, and did overye it sometimes. 1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 182 Which of us should overhye the other in celerity. 1749 Crookshank Hist. I. 395 (Jam.) At last one of the best mounted overhighed the postilion. 1834 Hogg in Fraser's Mag. IX. 276 Angus..with his long strides began to overhie Campbell. |
b. To leave behind by hastening on. rare.
| a 1621 Fletcher Wild-goose Chase i. i, Within this eight hours I took leave of him, And over-hied him, having some slight business That forced me out o' th' way. |
2. intr. To pass over swiftly (as time). rare.
| 1582 Stanyhurst æneis iii. 86 Nor yeet was mydnight overhyed, when that Palinurus, From bed nimblye fleeth. |