n. 1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Shak.

Syn. -- Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hurts or does harm. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See Hurt, v. t. ] A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet. [ 1913 Webster ]