Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hurst \Hurst\, n. [OE. hurst, AS. hyrst; akin to OHG. hurst,
   horst, wood, thicket, G. horst the nest of a bird of prey, an
   eyerie, thicket.]
   A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many
   names, as in Hazlehurst.