Pelt
(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 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.
The children billows seem to pelt the clouds.
Shak. 2. To throw; to use as a missile.
My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.
Dryden. Pelt
(Pelt), v. i.
1. To throw missiles. Shak.
2. To throw out words. [Obs.]
Another smothered seems to peltand swear.
Shak. Pelt
(Pelt), n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Pelta
(||Pel"ta) n.; pl. Peltæ. [L., a shield, fr. Gr. .]
1. (Antiq.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped.
2. (Bot.) A flat apothecium having no rim.
Peltate
(Pel"tate Pel"ta*ted) a. [Cf. F. pelté. See Pelta.] Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the
stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; — said of a leaf or other
organ. — Pel"tate*ly adv.
Pelter
(Pelt"er) n. One who pelts.
Pelter
(Pel"ter) n. A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. [Obs.] "Let such pelters
prate." Gascoigne.
Peltiform
(Pel"ti*form) a. [Pelta + - form.] Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate. Henslow.
Pelting
(Pel"ting) a. Mean; paltry. [Obs.] Shak.
