Hinge (?), v. i. To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to
depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; --
usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point. I.
Taylor
Hinged (?), a. Furnished with hinges.
Hinge"less (?), a. Without a hinge or joint.
Hink (?), n. A reaping hook. Knight.
{ Hin"ni*ate (?), Hin"ny (?) } v. i. [L. hinnire.] To neigh; to whinny.
[Obs.]
Hin"ny, n.; pl. Hinnies (#). [L. hinnus, cf. Gr. &?;.] A hybrid between
a stallion and an ass.
Hin"ny, n. A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey.
[Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Hint (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hinting.] [OE.
henten, hinten, to seize, to catch, AS. hentan to pursue, take, seize;
or Icel. ymta to mutter, ymtr a muttering, Dan. ymte to whisper.
√36. Cf. Hent.] To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote
allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.
Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike.
Pope.
Syn. -- To suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply.
Hint, v. i. To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to
allude vaguely to something.
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle.
Tennyson.
To hint at, to allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously.
Syn. -- To allude; refer; glance; touch.
Hint, n. A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a
suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation;
also, an occasion or motive.
Our hint of woe Is common.
Shak.
The hint malevolent, the look oblique.
Hannah More.
Syn. -- Suggestion; allusion. See Suggestion.
Hint"ing*ly (?), adv. In a hinting manner.
Hip (?), n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G.
h¸fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. hˆft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr.
&?; the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis
and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping
sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in
different directions.
3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post
meets the top chord. Waddell.
Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and
huckle bone. -- Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle. -- Hip joint
(Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone. -- Hip
knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of
the hip rafters and the ridge. -- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the
hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
-- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the
ridge in the angle of a hip roof. -- Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a
roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip,
v. t., 3. -- Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof. -- To
catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage
of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak. -- To smite hip
and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.
Hip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping.] 1. To
dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of
(a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of
that side.
2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically
called cross buttock).