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Hit
King James Dictionary
or 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.
HIT,
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.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Hit'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/hit.html.
