Hur"ry, n. The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure;
urgency; bustle; confusion.
Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and
puts into a violent hurry of thought.
Addison.
Syn. -- Haste; speed; dispatch. See Haste.
Hur"ry*ing*ly, adv. In a hurrying manner.
Hur"ry-skur`ry (?), adv. [An imitative word; cf. Sw. skorra to rattle,
snarl, E. scurry.] Confusedly; in a bustle. [Obs.] Gray.
Hurst (?), n. [OE. hurst, AS. hyrst; akin to OHG. hurst, horst, wood,
thicket, G. horst the nest of a bird of prey, an eyerie, thicket.] A
wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in
Hazlehurst.
Hurt, n. (Mach.) (a) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the
trunnions. (b) A husk. See Husk, 2.
Hurt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hurt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hurting.] [OE.
hurten, hirten, horten, herten; prob. fr. OF. hurter, heurter, to
knock, thrust, strike, F. heurter; cf. W. hyrddu to push, drive,
assault, hwrdd a stroke, blow, push; also, a ram, the orig. sense of
the verb thus perhaps being, to butt as a ram; cf. D. horten to push,
strike, MHG. hurten, both prob. fr. Old French.] 1. To cause physical
pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
The hurt lion groans within his den.
Dryden.
2. To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage;
to injure; to harm.
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt.
Milton.
3. To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in
honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve. "I am angry and hurt."
Thackeray.
Hurt"er, n. 1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the
like.
The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel.
Locke.
2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as
of sin.
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
Tennyson.