Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HURT, n.

1. A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body. The pains of sickness and hurts. Locke.
2. Harm; mischief; injury. I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. Gen. iv.
3. Injury; loss. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? Ezra iv.