hurry-burry 
hurry-burry (hur'i-bur'i), n. Same as hurly- 
burlyl. [Scotch.] 
hurry-durryt (hur'i-dur'i), a. [A varied re- 
dupl. of hurry.] Rough; hasty. Davies. 
'Tis a hurry-durn/ blade : dost thou remember after we 
had tugged hard the old leaky long-boat to save his life, 
when I welcomed him ashore, he gave me a box on the 
ear, and called me fawning water-du^ .' 
Wychtrley, Plain Dealer, L 1. 
hurry-skurry, hurry-scurry (hur'i-skur'i), n. 
and a. [< hurry + xkurru, in sense associated 
u-ith hurly-burly, Sc. hurry-burry, etc.] I. H. 
Fluttering haste ; swift disorderly movement. 
[Colloq.] 
They lock'd the bower, they lit the torch, 
'Twas hurry-skurri/ a'. 
Yuuny Child Dyr'imj (Child's Ballads, IV. 268). 
Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past 
the farm-houses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, . . . 
and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen 
a moment till the terry-scurry had clattered by. 
Iraing, Sketch-Book, p. 431. 
II. a. Rushing headlong; disorderly. 
"I hope it is in good plain verse," said my uncle 
" none of your hurry-amrry anapaests, as you call them, in 
lines which sober people read for plain heroics." 
Clough, Dipsychus, Prol. 
hurry-skurry, hurry-scurry (hur'i-skur'i), 
adv. [< hurry-skurry, .] Confusedly; in a 
bustle. 
Run hurry-xcurry round the floor. 
And o'er the bed and tester clamber. 
Gray, Long Story. 
hurse-skin (hers'skin), ti. [< hurse (?) (origin 
not ascertained) + skin.'] Shagreen prepared 
from fish-skins, used for making covers for sur- 
gical instruments, etc. McElrath, Com. Diet, 
hurst (herst), . [Early mod. E. also hirst; < 
husband 
lower end of a platform to prevent the wheels 
of a gun-carriage from injuring the parapet. 
ft) To give mental pain to ; wound or injure in mind or ( *> A woodeu or ir P'ece bolted to the top 
feelings; grieve; distress. ra "S of a gun-carnage, either in front or in 
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Hurt in his first tilt was my son, Sir Torre, 
And so, God wot, his shield is blank enough. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
Hence satire rose, that just the medium hit, 
And heals with morals what it hurts with wit. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 282. 
The plant he meant grew not far off, 
And felt the sneer with scorn enough ; 
Was hurt, disgusted, mortified, 
And with asperity replied. 
Cowper, Poet, Oyster, and Sensitive Plant. 
the rear (in the latter case called a counter- 
hurter), to check its motion. 2. In a vehicle: 
(a) The shoulder of an axle, against which the 
hub strikes. (I>) A reinforcing piece on the 
shoulder of an axle. 
hurtful (hert'ful), a. [< hiirft + -ful.~\ Tend- 
ing to hurt or impair ; injurious ; mischievous ; 
2. In general, to do harm or mischief to ; affect causing harm or damage. 
injuriously; endamage. 
There hitrteth you noo thyng but youre conceyte : 
Be luge youre self, for soo shal ye it fynde. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 78. 
Theyrs be the charge, that speke so large, 
In hurtymje of my name. 
Nut-brown Maid (Percy's Eeliques, p. 182). 
Be not offended; for it hurts not him 
That he is lov'd of me. Shak., All's Well, i. 3. 
The Tygre, which being hungry is very hurtfull, being 
full will flee from a Dogge. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 835. 
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as 
hurtfull as a bad. Milton, Eikonoklastes, ix. 
= Syn. Disadvantageous, detrimental, harmful, prejudi- 
cial, deleterious, baneful, unwholesome, pernicious, nox- 
ious, destructive. 
hurtfully (hert'ful-i), adv. In a hurtful man- 
ner; injuriously. 
The Elizabeth Dorcas . . . having a long passage,' and hurtfulness (hert'ful-nes), . The state or 
being hurt upon a rock at ScUly, and very ill victualled, quality of being hurtful or detrimental ; inju- 
she lost sixty passengers at sea. riousness. 
Winthrop, Hist New England, 1. 182. hurtle 1 (her'tl), r. ; pret. and pp. hurtled, ppr. 
II. wtrans. 1. To cause injury, harm, or pain hurtling. [< ME. hurtten, hurtelen, sometimes 
of any kind, mental or physical. hortelen, knock, dash against, dash, throw, 
Which sacrament or sign, though it seem superfluous, hurl; intr., dash, rush, or fall with violence; 
Tetaslonga8the8igniflcatioiibode,itAurtednot freq. of hurten, dash against, etc., hurt; contr. 
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain. 
Isa. xi. 9. 
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. 
Shak., Tempest, iii. 2. 
2f. To rush with violence. 
The bore anoone hurted to hym and ranne fast toward 
the Erie. 
Quoted in Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), notes, p. 235. 
ter, heap, mass, an aery, a sand-bank. ' Origin physical or mental pain, as a wound, bruise, 
uncertain; Skeat connects it with hurdle, as if 552*? ete -;, m general, damage ; impairment ; 
an 'interwoven thicket.'] 1. A wood or grove: 
now used chiefly in local names, as Hurst, Hazle- 
hurst, LyndAursi, etc. See the etymology. 
The courteous Forest show'd 
So just conceived joy, that from each rising hunt, 
Where many a goodly oak had carefully been nurst 
The Sylvans in their songs their mirthful meeting tell. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, it. 187. 
He turned to where a daisied footpath, leaving the bridge 
on the farther side of the highway, wound under the oaks 
and alders of the Hunt. 
J. W. Palmer, After his Kind, p. 13. 
2. The husk or frame of a run of millstones. 
detriment; harm. 
The! smotte hym full smertely that the bloode oute braste, 
That all his hyde in hurth was hastely hidde. 
York Plays, p. 427. 
In hys iaw bare a hurt ful of pain 
Off a lyon, which al hys life bare ful Eighty. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), I. 1228. 
That which he willeth by occasion, is also to his own 
good. For how should God will hurt to himself? 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v., App. 1. 
Nothing doth more hurt in a State than that cunning 
men pass for wise. Bacon, Cunning (ed. 1887). 
trans. 1. To dash, push, or knock violently; 
throw or hurl. 
And he him hurtleth with his horse adoun. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, L 1758. 
If by haterede a man hurtlith ethir schouflth [or shoveth] 
a man. Wyclif, Num. xxxv. 20 (Purv.). 
2. To move about with violence or impetuosi- 
ty ; whirl round ; brandish. 
His harmef ull club he gan to hurtle hye. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 42. 
H. intrans. To rush violently and noisily; 
move rapidly and impetuously ; go swiftly with 
a whirring, clashing, or clattering sound. 
Whan thei made here menstracie eche man wende 
[thought], 
That heuen hastili & erthe schuld hurtel to-gader. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5013. 
A strong man hurtlide iigens a strong man. 
Wyclif, Jer. xlvi. 12 (Purv.). 
The noise of battle hurtled in the air, 
Horses do neigh, and dying men did groan. 
Shak., J. C., ii. 2. 
Together hurtled both their steeds, and brake 
Each other's neck. Fairfax, tr. of lasso, vi. 41. 
The great war-eagle, 
Master of all fowls with feathers, 
Screamed and hurtled through the heavens. 
Longfellow, Hiawatha, ix. 
Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to. _.. w , ,..,, . 
E. H. Knight. 3. The ring of the helve'oiTa =Syn. Harm, Mischief, etc. See injury. *"*' T ' N " V ' L hurtle 2 !, n. [A var., in a fig. use, of whurtle, 
trip-hammer, which supports the trunnions, hurt 2 (hert), n. [Also in comp. hurtberry short wjtortle > a whortleberry : see tchortle.] A pim- 
for hurtlebcrry: see hurtberry, hurtleberry. In P le or wart - 
the heraldic use only in pi. hurts, lieurts, and V lpon whose Pa'mes such warts and hurtells rise, 
appar. a different word /identical with hurfl, ^^I^E&Z^tS^^ 
E. H. Knight. 4. A sand-bank near a river; 
also, a shallow in a river. [Scotch.] 
At that time the current of water removed a sand-bank 
or hirst that lay on the margin of the river. 
State, Leslie of Powis, etc., p. 62. (Jamieion.) 
hurst-beech (herst'bech), w. The hornbeam, wx-. c,-w, Hiiian azure uaus ; tearmea ( i - ,-' M 
CarjnnusBetHlu*. Also called horst- or horse- heraldry)^ on men and tongue-moies^on ^e^tef^^r^.]*^ ^' 
beech. See cut under Carpinus. 
hurt 1 (hert), c.; pret. and pp. hurt, formerly 
also hurted, ppr. hurting. [< ME. hurten, hirt- 
women" (Cotgrave): see hurft, n.] If. The huckleberry 
huckleberry, particularly Vaccinimn Myrtillus. hurtless (hert'les) a. 
is onely a headland of high nils, oner- * 
Cape Cod . 
7 . i. _. , r . v^tipc \,uu ... is uiieiy H imuumiui 01 niiin nils, ouor- 
en, hyrten, horten (pret. hurts, hirte, pp. hurt, growne with shrubby Pines, hurts, aud such trash but an 
Mr*, or hurted, hirted), knock, hit, dash against, "">"* 1 "- 1 -- -" " 
injure, hurt, intr. stumble (the alleged AS. 
'hyrt, hurt, belongs to ME.), < OP. hurter, heur- 
ter, F. heurter; cf. Pr. nrtar, hurtar = It. urtare 
(ML. hortare, ortare), push, thrust, knock, hit, 
1 
excellent harbour for all weathers. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 194. 
There are three sorts of hurts, or huckleberries, upon 
bushes from two to ten feet high. 
_ . [< hurt* + -less.] 
Inflicting no injury; harmless; innoxious. 
Been murderers of so much paper, 
Or wasted many a hurtless taper. 
B. Jmuun, Volpone, ii. 1. 
Her [Nature's] fearless visitings, or those 
That came with soft alarm, like hurtless light 
Opening the peaceful clouds. , 
Wordsworth, Prelude, i. 
2. Having received no injury ; unharmed. 
'"anUent a^d " * '1 i >ser " e of these berries sa T e hurtlcssly (hert'les-li), adv. Without harm. 
, _ 'dshiregiveache'veron betwixt three /lurtsn'roner Both with brave breaking should hiirllessly have per- 
= Dan. Sw. hurtig, quick, nimble) ; all prob. for their arms. fuller. Worthies (ed. Nichols),!. 271. formed tnat match. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
from OF., and that of Celtic origin: Vf.hyrddu, hurt 3 !- Contracted third person singular in- hurtlessness (hert'les-nes), n. The state or 
ram, push, impel, butt, make an assault, hwrdd, dicative present for hurteth. Chaucer. quality of being hurtless; harmlessness. 
2. In 
dash against; MD. horten, hurten, knock, dash 
against, D. horten, jolt, shake, = MLG. LG. hurt- 
en, push, = MHG. hurten, dash against, hurt, a 
knock, hit, push (> hurte'e, hurteflich, G. hur'tig 
Beterley, Virginia, ii. H 13. 
a roundel azure, representing the 
. . . hoping that the goodnes of their in- 
the hurllessnessol their sex, shall excuse the 
One 
[Rare.] 
The maids . 
tention, and the 
breach of the commandement. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
hurtsickle (hert'sik-a), n. [< hurtl + obj. 
sickle.] The Centaurea Cyanus, or bluebottle : 
so named with reference to the difficulty of 
cutting it down. [Eng.] 
hurty (her'ti), a. [< F. heurte, pp. of heurter, 
Do not you breed too great an expectation of it among knock: see httrft.] In her., strewed with hurts, 
rar friends ; that's the hurter of these things. ' without regard to number ; sem6 of hurts. 
B. Jonion, Bartholomew Fair, v. 3. Also hurted. 
My heart, my heart ! and yet I bless the hurter. hust, n. A Middle English form of housed 
. ,_., . u f j etehar <**% Maul in the Mill, i.l. husband (huz'band), n. [< ME. hutbande, hous- 
Shak., Othello, iv. i. hurter^ (her ter), n. [Also written hurtoir; < bviide, hosebonde, hosbonde, -bond (rarely ending 
I am afraid he is hurted very sadlv. F. heurtoir, a knocker, < heurter, knock: see in -bande, -band, which is etym. incorrect), the 
273. Mm.] 1. Milit.: (a) A beam placed at the master of the house, a married man in relation 
push, thrust, butt, < W. hwrdd, pi. hyrddod, = hurtberryt (hert'ber'i), .; 'pl.hurtber'ries(-iz). 
Corn, horclh, later hor, a ram (cf. Manx heurin, Same as hurft, 1. 
E. ram,v., knock, push, thrust, Hurtberrics. In Latine Vaccinia, most wholsome to the 
now usea without direct reference to the noun stomach, but of a very astringent nature : so plentiful in 
ram (the animal) ; but the Celtic words verb tnia 8nire that !t is a kind * harvest to poor people, 
and noun, may have come from a root mean- Fuller ' Wortnies ( ed - 1811 )- " 271- 
ing 'push, thrust.' Hence freq. hurtle^ and its hurted (her'ted), a. In her., same as hurty. 
contr. form hurll : see hurtle^ and 7mr/l.] I hurter 1 (her'ter), n. [< hurft + -erl.] Oi 
trans. 1. To knock, hit, or dash against, so as wno or that which hurts. 
to wound or pain ; inflict suffering upon. t a ) To 
injure physically ; give physical pain to; wound. 
Challenge me the count's youth to fight with him ; hurt 
him in eleven places. Shak., 1. N., iii. 2. 
heart is turned to stone ; I strike it, and It hurts my 
rted very sadly. 
Brooke, Fool of Quality, I. : 
