PELT
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Pelt (pĕlt), n. [Cf. G. pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. pelice, F. pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. shortened fr. peltry.] 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.
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Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes.
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2. The human skin. [Jocose] Dryden.
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3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
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Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.
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Pelt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting.] [OE. pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. fr. pellere to drive), and E. pulse a beating.] 1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
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The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds.
Shak.
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2. To throw; to use as a missile.
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My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.
Dryden.
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Pelt, v. i. 1. To throw missiles. Shak.
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2. To throw out words. [Obs.]
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Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.
Shak.
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Pelt, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
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