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 Hit v. i.
 1. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
    If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?   --Locke.
    Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them.   --Woodward.
 2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
 And oft it hits
 Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.   --Shak.
    And millions miss for one that hits.   --Swift.
 To hit on or To hit upon, to light upon; to come to by chance; to discover unexpectedly; as, he hit on the solution after days of trying. “None of them hit upon the art.”