To strike; to meet or come in contact; to clash; followed by against or on.

é. pret. and pp. hit.

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. 7 Samuel 31:3.

To reach; to attain to. Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right-

To strike; to meet or come in contact; to clash; followed by against oron. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Achance; a casual event; as a lucky hit.

A lucky chance; a fortunate event.

A term in back-gammon. Three hits are equal to a gammon.

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.

To become entangled; to be caught or hooked.

To hit the legs together in going, as horses.

To hop; to spring on one leg. J .

To move or walk.