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Webster 1913 Edition
Hurt
Hurt
,Noun.
(Mach.)
(a)
A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
(b)
A husk. See
Husk
, 2. Hurt
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hurt
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hurting
.] [OE.
hurten
, hirten
, horten
, herten
; prob. fr. OF. hurter
, heurter
, to knock, thrust, strike, F. heurter
; cf. W. hyrddu
to push, drive, assault, hwrdd
a stroke, blow, push; also, a ram, the orig. sense of the verb thus perhaps being, to butt as a ram; cf. D. horten
to push, strike, MHG. hurten
, both prob. fr. Old French.] 1.
To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
The
hurt
lion groans within his den. Dryden.
2.
To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
Virtue may be assailed, but never
hurt
. Milton.
3.
To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.
“I am angry and hurt.” Thackeray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hurt
HURT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To bruise; to give pain by a contusion, pressure, or any violence to the body. We hurt the body by a severe blow, or by tight clothes, and the feet by fetters. Ps.105.2.
To wound; to injure or impair the sound state of the body,as by incision or fracture.3.
To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss. We hurt a man by destroying his property.4.
To injure by diminution; to impair. A man hurts his estate by extravagance.
5.
To injure by reducing in quality; to impair the strength,purity or beauty of. Hurt not the wine and the oil--Rev.6.
6.
To harm; to injure; to damage, in general.7.
To wound; to injure; to give pain to; as, to hurt the feelings.HURT
,Noun.
The pains of sickness and hurts.
1.
Harm; mischief; injury. I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. Gen.4.
2.
Injury; loss. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? Ezra.4.