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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.
pret. and pp. hurt.
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.
A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body.
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.