Part 5454

<blockquote>Thou dost me yet but little <b>hurt</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage.</syn>

<h1>Hurter</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hurt"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who hurts or does harm.</def>

<blockquote>I shall not be a <b>hurter</b>, if no helper. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hurter</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hurt"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>heurtoir</ets>, lit., a striker. See <er>Hurt</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: <fld>(Mil.)</fld> A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.</def>

<h1>Hurtful</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hurt"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; <as>as, <ex>hurtful</ex> words or conduct</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome; destructive.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>Hurt"ful*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Hurt"ful*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Hurtle</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hur"tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hurtled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hurtling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>hurtlen</ets>, freq. of <ets>hurten</ets>. See <er>Hurt</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, and cf. <er>Hurl</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.</def>

<blockquote>Together <b>hurtled</b> both their steeds. <i>Fairfax.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.</def>

<blockquote>Now <b>hurtling</b> round, advantage for to take. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Down the <b>hurtling</b> cataract of the ages. <i>R. L. Stevenson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.</def>

<blockquote>The noise of battle <b>hurtled</b> in the air. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The earthquake sound <b>Hurtling</b> 'death the solid ground. <i>Mrs. Browning.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hurtle</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hur"tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>His harmful club he gan to <b>hurtle</b> high. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To push; to jostle; to hurl.</def>

<blockquote>And he <b>hurtleth</b> with his horse adown. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hurtleberry</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hur"tle*ber`ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Huckleberry</er>, <er>Whortleberry</er>.]</ety> <def>See <er>Whortleberry</er>.</def>

<h1>Hurtless</h1> <Xpage=714>