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Hit (?), pron. It. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Hit, 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Hit (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hit; p. pr. & vb. n. Hitting.] [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.] 1. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
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I think you have hit the mark. Shak.
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2. To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
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Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right. Locke.
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There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him. Dryden.
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Whose saintly visage is too bright
To hit the sense of human sight. Milton.
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He scarcely hit my humor. Tennyson.
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3. To guess; to light upon or discover. “Thou hast hit it.” Shak.
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4. (Backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
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To hit off, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker. Sir W. Temple. -- To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Hit (?), v. i. 1. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
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If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another? Locke.
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Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. Woodward.
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2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
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And oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. Shak.
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And millions miss for one that hits. Swift.
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To hit on or To hit upon, to light upon; to come to by chance; to discover unexpectedly; as, he hit on the solution after days of trying. “None of them hit upon the art.” Addison.
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Hit, n. 1. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
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So he the famed Cilician fencer praised,
And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed. Dryden.
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2. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit; esp. A performance, as a musical recording, movie, or play, which achieved great popularity or acclaim; also used of books or objects of commerce which become big sellers; as, the new notebook computer was a big hit with business travellers.
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What late he called a blessing, now was wit,
And God's good providence, a lucky hit. Pope.

3. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
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4. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
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5. (Baseball) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
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6. An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.
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Base hit, Safe hit, Sacrifice hit. (Baseball) See under Base, Safe, etc.