Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hit"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hit \Hit\, pron.
It. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hit \Hit\,
3d pers. sing. pres. of {Hide}, contracted from hideth.
[Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hit \Hit\, v. 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. --Shak.

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 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hit \Hit\, v. 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 hits Where hope is coldest and despair
most fits. --Shak.

And millions miss for one that hits. --Swift.

{To hit on} or {upon}, to light upon; to come to by chance.
``None of them hit upon the art.'' --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hit \Hit\, n.
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 hit, with wonder seems amazed. --Dryden.

2. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate
chance; as, he made a hit.

What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And
God's good providence, a lucky hit. --Pope.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

hit
n 1: a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in
baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
2: a act of hitting one thing with another; "repeated hitting
raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally
got a hit" [syn: {hitting}, {striking}]
3: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and
marked the beginning of his career" [syn: {bang}, {smash},
{strike}]
4: an event in which two or more bodies come together [syn: {collision}]
5: a dose of a narcotic drug
6: a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all
the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
v 1: cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
2: hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a
tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" [syn: {strike},
{impinge on}, {run into}, {collide with}] [ant: {miss}]
3: affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit
by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when
he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at
midnight" [syn: {strike}]
4: deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument;
"He hit her hard in the face"
5: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit
Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We
barely made the plane"; "I have to hit the MAC machine
before the weekend starts" [syn: {reach}, {attain}, {make},
{arrive at}, {gain}]
6: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The
thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed
of 140 miles per hour" [syn: {reach}, {attain}]
7: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {shoot}, {pip}]
8: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An
interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me": "The
thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck
with fear" [syn: {strike}, {come to}]
9: make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy,
opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept.
1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the
fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners
home to win the game 5 to 2" [syn: {strike}]
10: hit the target or goal, as intended [ant: {miss}]
11: produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical
instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a
middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments
struck a sour note" [syn: {strike}]
12: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin
last night in a restaurant" [syn: {stumble}]
13: gain points; "The home team scored many times" [syn: {score},
{tally}, {rack up}]
14: consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
15: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {slay}, {dispatch},
{bump off}, {polish off}, {remove}]


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