hie

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The word of the day for January 24 is:

hie   \HYE\   verb
    *1: to go quickly : hasten
     2 : to cause (oneself) to go quickly

Example sentence:
     "In the summer, Nick, his wife, Arabella, and their three-
year-old daughter, Lily, hie off to the country -- yes, to a 
little stone cottage in Wales." (Charles Gandee, _Vogue_, 
February 1996)

Did you know?
     "Hie" has been part of English since the 12th century, and 
it stems from the even hoarier "higian," Old English for "to 
strive" or "to hasten." "Hie" enjoyed a high popularity period 
from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and you're sure to 
encounter it in the literature of those times -- writers from 
Shakespeare to Twain penned it into their prose. But don't get 
the idea that "hie" is just a word of the past. It is regularly 
tapped out on the keyboards of 21st-century writers, and it 
pops up in print somewhere in just about any given week.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.