In whose high-toned impartial mind Degrees of mortal rank and state
Seem objects of indifferent weight.
Sir W. Scott.
High"-top` (?), n. A ship's masthead. Shak.
High"ty-tigh"ty (?), a. Hoity- toity.
High"way` (?), n. A road or way open to the use of the public; a main
road or thoroughfare.
Syn. -- Way; road; path; course.
High"way`man (?), n.; pl. Highwaymen (&?;). One who robs on the public
road; a highway robber.
High"-wrought` (?), a. 1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate.
[Obs.] Pope.
2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion.
"A high-wrought flood." Shak.
Hi"gre (?), n. See Eagre. [Obs.] Drayton.
Hig"-ta`per (?), n. [Cf. Hag- taper.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus
Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and
hag-taper.]
Hij"e*ra (?), Hij"ra (&?;), n. See Hegira.
Hi"lal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a hilum.
Hi"lar (?), a. (Bot.) Belonging to the hilum.
Hi*la"ri*ous (?), a. [L. hilaris, hilarus, Gr. &?;; cf. &?; gracious,
kindly.] Mirthful; noisy; merry.
Hi*lar"i*ty (?; 277), n. [L. hilaritas: cf. F. hilaritÈ. See
Hilarious.] Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity. Goldsmith.
Hilarity differs from joy: the latter, excited by good news or
prosperity, is an affection of the mind; the former, produced by social
pleasure, drinking, etc., which rouse the animal spirits, is more
demonstrative.
Syn. -- Glee; cheerfulness; mirth; merriment; gayety; joyousness;
exhilaration; joviality; jollity.
Hil"a*ry term` (?). Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of
common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending
on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from
the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.
The Hilary term is superseded by the Hilary sittings, which commence on
the eleventh of January and end on the Wednesday before Easter. Mozley
& W.
Hil"ding (?), n. [Prob. a corruption of hindling, dim. of hind, adj.
Cf. Prov. E. hilderling, hinderling. See Hinderling.] A base, menial
wretch. -- a. Base; spiritless. [Obs.] Shak.
Hile (?), v. t. To hide. See Hele. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hile (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Hilum.
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.
Every mountain and hill shall be made low.
Is. xl. 4.
2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants.
[U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
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.]
Hill ant (Zoˆl.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America,
which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests. -- Hill myna (Zoˆl.),
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 (Zoˆl.), a
partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit
Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Hill tit (Zoˆl.), one of numerous
species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family LeiotrichidÊ. Many
are beautifully colored.
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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.
Showing them how to plant and hill it.
Palfrey.
Hill"i*ness (?), n. The state of being hilly.
Hill"ing, n. The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around
plants.
Hill"ock (?), n. A small hill. Shak.
Hill"side` (?), n. The side or declivity of a hill.
Hill"top` (?), n. The top of a hill.
Hill"y (?), a. 1. Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly
country. "Hilly steep." Dryden.