Hit
King James Dictionary [1]
Hit, pret. and pp. hit.
1. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall. 2. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall.
The archers hit him. 1 Samuel 31
3. To reach to attain to.
Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right--
4. To suit to be conformable.
--Melancholy,
Whose saintly visage is too bright
To hit the sense of human sight.
5. To strike to touch properly to offer the right bait.
There you hit him--that argument never fails with him.
To hit off, to strike out to determine luckily.
1. To represent or describe exactly.
To hit out, to perform by good luck. Little used.
Hit, To strike to meet or come in contact to clash followed by against or on.
If bodies be mere extension, how can they move and hit one against another.
Corpuscles meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them.
1. To meet or fall on by good luck to succeed by accident not to miss.
And oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
2. To strike or reach the intended point to succeed.
And millions miss for one that hits.
To hit on or upon, to light on to come to or fall on by chance to meet or find, as by accident.
None of them hit upon the art.
Hit, n. A striking against the collision of one body against another the stroke or blow that touches any thing.
So he the famed Cilician fencer prais'd,
And at each hit with wonder seems amaz'd.
1. A chance a casual event as a lucky hit. 2. A lucky chance a fortunate event. 3. A term in back-gammon. Three hits are equal to a gammon.
1. To move by jerks, or with stops as, in colloquial language, to hitch along.
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides in a verse, or hitches in a rhyme.
2. To become entangled to be caught or hooked. 3. To hit the legs together in going, as horses. Not used in the U. States. 4. To hop to spring on one leg. Local. 5. To move or walk.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
(2): ( v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; - followed by against or on.
(3): ( n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
(4): ( n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; - sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
(5): ( n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
(6): ( pron.) It.
(7): ( imp. & p. p.) of Hit
(8): ( n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.
(9): ( v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
(10): ( v. t.) To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
(11): ( v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.
(12): ( n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
(13): ( v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, - often with implied chance, or luck.
(14): ( v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; - said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
