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| == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_60748" /> ==
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| <p> [[Hit,]] pret. and pp. hit. </p> 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. <p> The archers hit him. 1 Samuel 31 </p> 3. To reach to attain to. <p> [[Birds]] learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right-- </p> 4. To suit to be conformable. <p> --Melancholy, </p> <p> Whose saintly visage is too bright </p> <p> To hit the sense of human sight. </p> 5. To strike to touch properly to offer the right bait. <p> There you hit him--that argument never fails with him. </p> <p> To hit off, to strike out to determine luckily. </p> 1. To represent or describe exactly. <p> To hit out, to perform by good luck. Little used. </p> <p> [[Hit,]] To strike to meet or come in contact to clash followed by against or on. </p> <p> If bodies be mere extension, how can they move and hit one against another. </p> <p> Corpuscles meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. </p> 1. To meet or fall on by good luck to succeed by accident not to miss. <p> And oft it hits </p> <p> Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. </p> 2. To strike or reach the intended point to succeed. <p> And millions miss for one that hits. </p> <p> To hit on or upon, to light on to come to or fall on by chance to meet or find, as by accident. </p> <p> None of them hit upon the art. </p> <p> [[Hit,]] n. [[A]] striking against the collision of one body against another the stroke or blow that touches any thing. </p> <p> So he the famed Cilician fencer prais'd, </p> <p> And at each hit with wonder seems amaz'd. </p> 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. <p> [[Hit,]] </p> 1. To move by jerks, or with stops as, in colloquial language, to hitch along. <p> Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time </p> <p> Slides in a verse, or hitches in a rhyme. </p> 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.
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| | <p> (adj.) having become very popular or acclaimed; - said of entertainment performances; as, a hit record, a hit movie. </p> |
| == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_127237" /> ==
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| <p> '''(1):''' ''' 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.''' </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; - followed by against or on. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; - sometimes used specifically for a base hit. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' pron.) It. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' imp. & p. p.) of [[Hit]] </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit. </p> <p> '''(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). </p> <p> '''(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. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, - often with implied chance, or luck. </p> <p> '''(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. </p> | | == References == |
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| | | <ref name="term_127234"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/hit+(2) Hit from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> |
| <ref name="term_60748"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/hit Hit from King James Dictionary]</ref> | |
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| <ref name="term_127237"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/hit Hit from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
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