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Tantivy   Listen
verb
Tantivy  v. i.  To go away in haste. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tantivy" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Sir Henry, addressing his son; "Master Wildrake is one of the old school—one of the tantivy boys; and we must bear a little, for if they drink hard they fought well. I will never forget how a party came up and rescued us clerks of Oxford, as they called the regiment I belonged to, out of a cursed embroglio during the attack on Brentford. I tell you we were enclosed with the cockneys' ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott



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