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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HILL, n. [L. collis.]
1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence. A hill is less than a mountain, but of no definite magnitude, and is sometimes applied to a mountain. Jerusalem is seated on two hills. Rome stood on seven hills.
2. A cluster of plants, and the earth raised about them; as a hill of maiz or potatoes.
HILL, v.t. To raise earth about plants; to raise a little mass of earth. Farmers in New England hill their maiz in July.
Hilling is generally the third hoeing.
1. To cover. [L. celo.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. biographical name Ambrose Powell 1825-1865 American Confederate general II. biographical name Archibald Vivian 1886-1977 English physiologist III. biographical name James Jerome 1838-1916 American (Canadian-born) financier IV. biographical name Sir Rowland 1795-1879 English postal reformer

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hyll; akin to Latin collis hill, culmen top Date: before 12th century 1. a usually rounded natural elevation of land lower than a mountain 2. an artificial heap or mound (as of earth) 3. several seeds or plants planted in a group rather than a row 4. slope, incline II. transitive verb Date: 1581 1. to form into a heap 2. to draw earth around the roots or base of • hiller noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a naturally raised area of land, not as high as a mountain. b (as the hills) Anglo-Ind. = hill-station. 2 (often in comb.) a heap; a mound (anthill; dunghill). 3 a sloping piece of road. --v.tr. 1 form into a hill. 2 (usu. foll. by up) bank up (plants) with soil. Phrases and idioms: hill and dale (of a gramophone record) with groove-undulations in a vertical plane. hill-billy (pl. -ies) US 1 colloq., often derog. a person from a remote rural area in a southern State (cf. HICK). 2 folk music of or like that of the southern US. hill climb a race for vehicles up a steep hill. hill-fort a fort built on a hill. hill-station Anglo-Ind. a government settlement, esp. for holidays etc. during the hot season, in the low mountains of N. India. old as the hills very ancient. over the hill colloq. 1 past the prime of life; declining. 2 past the crisis. up hill and down dale see UP. Etymology: OE hyll

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Showing them how to plant and hill it. --Palfrey.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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 (Zo["o]l.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests. Hill myna (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. Hill tit (Zo["o]l.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family Leiotrichid[ae]. Many are beautifully colored.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hills) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A hill is an area of land that is higher than the land that surrounds it. We trudged up the hill to the stadium. ...Maple Hill. N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES 2. If you say that someone is over the hill, you are saying rudely that they are old and no longer fit, attractive, or capable of doing useful work. (INFORMAL) He doesn't take kindly to suggestions that he is over the hill. PHRASE: usu v-link PHR [disapproval]

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Eminence (less than a mountain), mount, rising ground, elevation.

Moby Thesaurus

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