pelt1 (pelt)

[ IMG:content-2583.jpg:[graphic] Fikenhild azen hire pelte With his swerdes hilte. King Horn (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1415. 2. To a ail with mi iles; a ail or strike with something thrown. The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds. Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 12. IMG:content-2584.png:[graphic] Several such obscure persons as these we have had of late, who have insulted men of great abilities and worth, and taken pleasure to pelt them, from their coverts, with little objections. Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, I. xi., Pref. 3. To throw; cast; hurl. [Rare.] My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Eclogues, iii. 97. II. in trans. 1. To throw mi iles. The bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men. Do pelt so fast [with pebbles tones] at one another's pate That many have their giddy brains knock'd out. IMG:content-2585.png:[blocks in formation] naval) and Sparta with allies (including several from the B. Cal) The contestants were Athens and her allies largely 5t. To submit; become paltry. Nares. Peloponnesus, whence the name of the war). Its final outcome was the transference of the hegemony in Greece from Athens to Sparta. II. n. A native or an inhabitant of the Peloponnesus.