What various hindrances we meet.
Cowper.
Something between a hindrance and a help.
Wordsworth.
Syn. -- Impediment; obstruction; obstacle; difficulty; interruption;
check; delay; restraint.
Hin"du (?), n. Same as Hindoo.
Hine (?), n. [See Hind a servant.] A servant; a farm laborer; a
peasant; a hind. [Obs.]
Bailiff, herd, nor other hine.
Chaucer.
Hinge (?), n. [OE. henge, heeng; akin to D. heng, LG. henge, Prov. E.
hingle a small hinge; connected with hang, v., and Icel. hengja to
hang. See Hang.]
1. The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid,
etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which
serves as a joint to turn on.
The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning.
Milton.
2. That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a
cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the
question turned.