Obs. rare. [f. prec.]
1. intr. To ride full tilt; to hurry away.
1681. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 29 (1713), I. 186. You will Tantivy then out of Town.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. viii. Pray where are they gone, tantivying?
2. trans. ? To call ‘tantivy’; to ‘give it him’ for calling one ‘tantivy.’
1681. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 34 (1713), I. 218. Never a word said to them for Torying, Tantivying and Masquerading his Majesty’s most loyal and dutiful Subjects.
1712. Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 10 Oct. I’ll ‘tantivy’ him with a vengeance.
