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Webster 1913 Edition
Hit
Hit
,p
ron.
It.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Hit
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hit
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hitting
.] [OE.
hitten
, hutten
, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte
to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta
.] 1.
To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
I think you have
hit
the mark. Shakespeare
2.
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.
Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to
hit
the notes right. Locke.
There you
hit
him; . . . that argument never fails with him. Dryden.
Whose saintly visage is too bright
To
To
hit
the sense of human sight. Milton.
He scarcely
hit
my humor. Tennyson.
3.
To guess; to light upon or discover.
“Thou hast hit it.” Shak.
4.
(Backgammon)
To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; – said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
To hit off
, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker.
Sir W. Temple.
– To hit out
, to perform by good luck.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Hit
,Verb.
I.
1.
To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; – followed by against or on.
If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and
hit
one against another? Locke.
Corpuscles, meeting with or
hitting
on those bodies, become conjoined with them. Woodward.
2.
To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, – often with implied chance, or luck.
And oft it
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
Shakespeare
And millions miss for one that
hits
. Swift.
To hit on
or To hit upon
to light upon; to come to by chance; to discover unexpectedly;
“None of them hit upon the art.” as, he
. hit on
the solution after days of tryingAddison.
Hit
,Noun.
1.
A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
So he the famed Cilician fencer praised,
And, at each
And, at each
hit
, with wonder seems amazed. Dryden.
3.
A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark;
as, a happy
. hit
4.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a
gammon
. 5.
(Baseball)
A striking of the ball;
as, a safe
; – sometimes used specifically for a hit
; a foul hit
base hit
. Webster 1828 Edition
Hit
HIT
,Verb.
T.
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 Sam.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
,Verb.
I.
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
,Noun.
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.HIT
, v.i.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.Definition 2024
hít
hít
Faroese
Noun
hít f (genitive singular hítar, plural hítir)
Declension
| Declension of hít | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f2 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hít | hítin | hítir | hítirnar |
| accusative | hít | hítina | hítir | hítirnar |
| dative | hít | hítini | hítum | hítunum |
| genitive | hítar | hítarinnar | híta | hítanna |