Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs.
Shak.
Syn. -- To pulverize; bray; triturate; pound; contuse.
Bruise, v. i. To fight with the fists; to box.
Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.
Thackeray.
Bruise, n. An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises.
Isa. i. 6.
Bruis"er (&?;), n. 1. One who, or that which, bruises.