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pelt

PELT, n. [L. pellis.]

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on it; a raw hide.

2. The quarry of a hawk all torn.

3. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [infra.]

PELT, v.t. [L. pello.]

1. Properly, to strike with something thrown, driven or falling; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds.

2. To drive by throwing something.


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PELT, n. [L. pellis.]

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on it; a raw hide.

2. The quarry of a hawk all torn.

3. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [infra.]

PELT, v.t. [L. pello.]

1. Properly, to strike with something thrown, driven or falling; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds.

2. To drive by throwing something.

PELT, n. [G. pelz; Sp. pelada; L. pellis. See Fell.]

  1. The skin of a beast with the hair on it; a raw hide. – Brown.
  2. The quarry of a hawk all torn. – Ainsworth.
  3. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [infra.]

PELT, v.t. [Fr. peloter, from pelote, a ball; or contracted from pellet. In Sw. bulta is to beat. The word is from Fr. pelote, a little ball, or from L. pello, Gr. βαλλω.]

  1. Properly, to strike with something thrown, driven or falling; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds. – Shak.
  2. To drive by throwing something. – Atterbury.

Pelt
  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. 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.

  3. To throw missiles.

    Shak.
  4. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  5. The human skin.

    [Jocose] Dryden.
  6. To throw; to use as a missile.

    My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden.

  7. To throw out words.

    [Obs.]

    Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.

  8. The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.

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

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Pelt

PELT, noun [Latin pellis.]

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on it; a raw hide.

2. The quarry of a hawk all torn.

3. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [infra.]

PELT, verb transitive [Latin pello.]

1. Properly, to strike with something thrown, driven or falling; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds.

2. To drive by throwing something.

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1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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CIPHER, n.

1. In arithmetic, an Arabian or Oriental character, of this form 0, which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but increases or diminishes the value of other figures, according to its position. In whole numbers, when placed at the right hand of a figure, it increases its value ten fold; but in decimal fractions, placed at the left hand of a figure, it diminishes the value of that figure ten fold.

2. A character in general.

3. An intertexture of letters, as the initials of a name, engraved on a seal, box, plate, coach or tomb; a device; an enigmatical character. Anciently, merchants and tradesmen, not being permitted to bear family arms, bore, in lieu of them, their cyphers, or initials of their names, artfully interwoven about a cross.

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CIPHER, v.i. In popular language, to use figures, or to practice arithmetic.

CIPHER, v.t.

1. To write in occult characters.

2. To designate; to characterize.

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