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Hinging
() of Hinge
Hinge
() To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
Hinge
() To bend.
Hinge
() 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.
Hinged
() Furnished with hinges.
Hingeless
() Without a hinge or joint.
Hink
() A reaping hook.
Hinniate
() Alt. of Hinny
Hinny
() To neigh; to whinny.
Hinnies
() of Hinny
Hinny
() A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.
Hinny
() A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey.
Hinted
() of Hint
Hinting
() of Hint
Hint
() To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.
Hint
() To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.
Hint
() A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.
Hintingly
() In a hinting manner.
Hip
() The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
Hip
() 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.
Hip
() In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
Hipped
() of Hip
Hipping
() of Hip
Hip
() 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.
Hip
() To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
Hip
() To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Hip
() The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).
Hip
() Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
Hip
() Alt. of Hipps
Hipps
() See Hyp, n.
Hiphalt
() Lame in the hip.
Hippa
() Alt. of Hippe
Hippe
() A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.
Hipparion
() An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.
Hipped
() Alt. of Hippish
Hippish
() Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish.
Hippobosca
() A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.
Hippocamp
() See Hippocampus.
Hippocampal
() Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.
Hippocampus
() A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.
Hippocampus
() A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
Hippocampus
() A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
Hippocentaur
() Same as Centaur.
Hippocras
() A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
Hippocrates
() A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.
Hippocratic
() Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.
Hippocratism
() The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.
Hippocrene
() A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration.
Hippocrepian
() One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema.
Hippocrepiform
() Shaped like a horseshoe.