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Webster 1913 Edition
Pelt
Pelt
(pĕlt)
, Noun.
1.
The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th
Fell
. Sir T. Browne.
Raw
pelts
clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.
2.
The human skin.
[Jocose]
Dryden.
3.
(Falconry)
The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
Pelt rot
, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
Pelt
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pelted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pelting
.] [OE.
pelten
, pulten
, pilten
, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. pultare
, equiv. to pulsare
(v. freq. fr. pellere
to drive), and E. pulse
a beating.] 1.
To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles,
as, to
pelt
with stones; pelted
with hail.The chidden billows seem to
pelt
the clouds. Shakespeare
2.
To throw; to use as a missile.
My Phillis me with
pelted
apples plies. Dryden.
Pelt
,Verb.
I.
1.
To throw missiles.
Shak.
2.
To throw out words.
[Obs.]
Another smothered seems to
pelt
and swear. Shakespeare
Pelt
,Noun.
A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pelt
PELT
,Noun.
1.
The skin of a beast with the hair on it; a raw hide.2.
The quarry of a hawk all torn.3.
A blow or stroke from something thrown. [infra.]PELT
,Verb.
T.
1.
Properly, to strike with something thrown, driven or falling; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds.
2.
To drive by throwing something.