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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Bruise

Bruise, v. t.

verbtransitive

(brūz, 32), v. t. [imp. & p. p. BRUISED; p. pr. & vb. n. BRUISING.] [O. Fr. bruiser, bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, A-S. brysan, to bruise; Ir. & Gael. bris, to break.]

Sense 1. To injure or crush, as by collision of, or against, a solid body; as said of animals or vegetables, to injure a part of, as by a blow, without laceration; to contuse; as applied to minerals, drugs, &c., to break, crush, or reduce to fragments; to bray.

Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.

It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen. iii. 15.

Sense 2. To fight with the fists; to box.

Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom. Thackeray.

Bruise, n.

noun

n. An injury to the flesh of animals, to plants, or other bodies, with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body: a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores. Isa. i. 6.