dispatch sb. (2 is the commonest S. sense)
1.
dismissal, leave to go, congé LLL. IV. i. 5,
Cor. V. iii. 180
“give us our ,”
Lr. II. i. 127
“the several messengers
From hence attend dispatch.”
2.
execution, settlement
Meas. IV. iv. 14
“to have a of
complaints,”
LLL. II. i. 31
“craving quick ,”
All'sW. III. ii. 56
“after some in hand
at court,”
IV. iii. 104; “swift ,” prompt
execution, (hence) speed, expedition H5 II. iv. 6,
Oth. I. iii. 46
“postpost-haste
dispatch,”
Sonn. cxliii. 3.
3.
conduct, management
Mac. I. v. 69
“into my ”
4.
act of putting away
hastily Lr. I. ii. 34.