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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. Fuller.
   
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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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