hill
6 definitions found
hill - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Hill \Hill\, n. [OE. hil, hul, AS. hyll; akin to OD. hille, hil,
L. collis, and prob. to E. haulm, holm, and column. Cf. 2d
Holm.]
1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising
above the common level of the surrounding land; an
eminence less than a mountain.
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Every mountain and hill shall be made low. --Is. xl.
4.
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2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of
plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
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3. A single cluster or group of plants growing close
together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a
hill of corn or potatoes. [U. S.]
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Hill ant (Zool.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe
and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its
nests.
Hill myna (Zool.), one of several species of birds of
India, of the genus Gracula, and allied to the
starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words.
[Written also hill mynah.] See Myna.
Hill partridge (Zool.), a partridge of the genus
Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern
Asia and the East Indies.
Hill tit (Zool.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic
singing birds of the family Leiotrichid[ae]. Many are
beautifully colored.
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Hill \Hill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hilled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hilling.]
To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon;
as, to hill corn.
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Showing them how to plant and hill it. --Palfrey.
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hill - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
hill
n 1: a local and well-defined elevation of the land; "they loved
to roam the hills of West Virginia"
2: structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of
earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind"
[syn: mound, hill]
3: United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) [syn: Hill, J. J. Hill
, James Jerome Hill]
4: risque English comedian (1925-1992) [syn: Hill, Benny Hill
, Alfred Hawthorne]
5: (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
[syn: mound, hill, pitcher's mound]
v 1: form into a hill
hill - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Hill
(1.) Heb. gib'eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common
to Palestine (Ps. 65:12; 72:3; 114:4, 6).
(2.) Heb. har, properly a mountain range rather than an
individual eminence (Ex. 24:4, 12, 13, 18; Num. 14:40, 44, 45).
In Deut. 1:7, Josh. 9:1; 10:40; 11:16, it denotes the elevated
district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, which forms the
watershed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
(3.) Heb. ma'aleh in 1 Sam. 9:11. Authorized Version "hill" is
correctly rendered in the Revised Version "ascent."
(4.) In Luke 9:37 the "hill" is the Mount of Transfiguration.
hill - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Hill, NH
Zip code(s): 03243
hill - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "hill":
acclivity, anthill, bank, bank up, barrow, bilge, blain, bleb,
blister, blob, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump,
bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, cock, condyle,
convex, decline, declivity, dowel, down, downgrade, downs, drift,
drumlin, dune, ear, elevation, embankment, eminence, fell, flange,
flap, foothill, foothills, gall, gnarl, grade, gradient, handle,
haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, height,
highland, hillock, hummock, hump, hunch, incline, jog, joggle,
knob, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, molehill,
monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mount, mountain, mow, nevus, nub,
nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, pile, pile up, prominence,
promontory, pyramid, rib, rick, ridge, ring, rise, sand dune,
shock, shoulder, slope, snowdrift, spine, stack, stack up, stud,
style, swell, tab, tor, tubercle, tubercule, upgrade, upland,
verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt
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