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Pelt

Pelt (pelt)
n.(?)
Pelt
[Cf. G. pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. pelice, F. pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. shortened fr. peltry.]
  1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
    Sir T. Browne.

    Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

  2. The human skin.
    [Jocose] Dryden.
  3. The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.

    Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

Pelt

Pelt (pelt)
v. t.
Pelt
and E. pulse a beating.]
  1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

    The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak.

  2. To throw; to use as a missile.

    My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden.

Pelt

Pelt (pelt)
v. i.
Pelt
  1. To throw missiles.
    Shak.
  2. To throw out words.
    [Obs.]

    Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.

Pelt

Pelt (pelt)
n.
Pelt
  1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.












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