Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hit \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 {upon}, to light upon; to come to by chance.
      ``None of them hit upon the art.'' --Addison.