Bruising ppl. a.

[see -ING².] That bruises.

1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, I. i. 3. Brusing or shyvering coldes.

1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., V. iii. 110. Put in their hands thy bruising Irons of wrath.

1874.  Boutell, Arms & Arm., vii. 121. Seriously injured by the bruising effect of the blow.

  b.  Hunting slang. See BRUISE v. 7.

1872.  G. A. Lawrence, Anteros, 142. He was … a fair, though by no means bruising rider to hounds.