hinoid 
the midrib, and are parallel and undivided, as 
in the Muxacea' and Ziuyiberaeeas. 
hinoideous (hi-noi'de-us), a. [< hinoid + -COMS.] 
Having a hinoid venation. 
hint 1 (hint), r. [< ME. hiiilcn, lujnten (fief. 1), 
var. of henten, lay hold of, seize, catch: see 
liciifl-. The form hcnt has become obs. in E., 
while the var. hint, in a deflected sense, partly 
due to the noun hint, opportunity, etc., has 
assumed the appearance of another word, the 
etym. of which has been sought elsewhere. 
The relation of hint to hent is like that of clinch 
to clench or of glint to glent.~\ I. trans. 1. To 
lay hold of; seize; snatch: a dialectal variant 
of hcnt 1 . 2. To suggest in an indirect man- 
ner ; indicate by allusion or implication ; give 
a hint of. 
Oft have you hinted to your brother peer 
A certain truth, which many buy too dear. 
Pope, Moral Essays, iv. 39. 
Still rung these words in Wilfrid's ear, 
Hinting he knew not what of fear. 
Scott, Kokeby, ii. 23. 
Perhaps one may venture to hint that the animal in- 
stincts are those that stand in least need of stimulation. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 168. 
= Syn. 2. Hint, Intimate, Suggest, Insinuate. To hint is to 
convey an idea in the lightest possible manner, and espe- 
cially by implication ; to let one's thought be known in an 
indirect, hesitating, or partial manner. To intimate is to 
convey one's meaning more plainly than by a hint, but 
still not directly or explicitly. Suggest has a somewhat 
wide range, often meaning essentially the same as propone 
or remind (one) of, and ranging down to the meaning of 
hint^: as, to suggest a plan ; to suggest more than one says. 
Insinuate is now generally used in a bad sense ; when 
used in a good sense, it implies pains taken and delicacy of 
skill. Hints and insinuations are always covert, intima- 
tions often, suggestions rarely. An innuendo is a peculiar- 
ly dark, crafty, or mean insinuation. 
II. intrans. To make an indirect reference, 
suggestion, or allusion To hint at, to allude to; 
refer to or suggest in a vague manner. 
One, in whom all evil fancies clung 
Like serpent eggs together, laughingly 
Would hint at worse in either. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
= Syn. Allude (to), Refer (to), etc. See advert, v. i. 
hint 1 (hint), . [Early mod. E. also liynt; a var. 
of hent 1 , n. ; from the verb.] 1. An act of ex- 
ertion; a snatch: as, in a hint, in a moment. 
Jamieson. [Obsolete or Scotch.] 2. An op- 
portunity; a fit time. Jamieson. [Obsolete or 
Scotch.] 
Wherein of antres vast, and desarts idle, 
Bough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch hea- 
ven, 
It was my hint to speak. SAafr., Othello, i. 3. 
3. A suggestion made indirectly; a covert sug- 
gestion or implication ; an indirect indication, 
conveyed by speech, gesture, action, or circum- 
stance, whether intentional or unintentional. 
I was very civilly entertained by him [the head priest 
among the Jews), and gave him several hints that I was 
desirous to take up my abode with him ; but he would 
not seem to understand me. 
Pococ/te, Description of the East, II. i. 76. 
I am apt to believe that they took the first hint of their 
dress from a fair sheep newly ruddled. 
Lady M. W. Montagu. 
I cannot greatly honor minuteness In details, so long as 
there is no hint to explain the relations between things 
and thoughts. Emerson, Nature, p. 81. 
Sometimes he [Chaucer] describes amply by the merest 
hint, as where the Friar, before setting himself softly down, 
drives away the cat. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 282. 
=Syn. See hint, v. t. 
hint 2 (hint), adv. [By apheresis from ahint."] 
Behind. [Scotch.] 
hinting (hin'ting), n. Same as henting. 
hintingly (hin'tmg-li), adv. In a hinting man- 
ner; suggestingly. 
hip 1 (hip), n. [< ME. hipe, hupe, hype, < AS. hype 
= D. iteiipe, formerly also Impe, huppe = OHG. 
huf, MHG. huf, G. hiifte (with excrescent t) = 
Icel. huppr = Sw. hoft'= Dan. hofte (after G. ?) = 
Goth, hups, hip; perhaps = Gr. i>/3of, the hol- 
low above the hips (of cattle), appar. a particu- 
lar use of !'/3or, a die, cube (see cube) . Cf . Lith. 
kumpis, fore quarter of pork. Cf. hump and 
heap.'] I. The projecting part of an animal 
formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper 
part of the femur, with the flesh covering 
them ; the upper part of the thigh ; the haunch. 
The most protuberant part is directly over the trochanter 
of the thigh-bone. In man the hip may be said to begin 
where the waist ends, with the arched upper border of the 
pelvis on each side, to extend the whole length of the 
pelvis, and to include the upper part of the thigh-bone, 
together with the soft parts covering this and the side of 
the pelvis. 
The whole quire hold their hips, and loffe. 
Shak., M. N. D., ii. 1. 
Her elbows pinion'd close upon her hips. 
Cowper, Truth, 1. 188. 
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2. The hip-joint. 3. In cntom., the coxa or 
first joint of an insect's leg. 4. In. arch. : (a) 
The external angle at the junction of two 
sloping roofs or sides of a roof. (6) The rafter 
at the angle where two sloping roofs or sides 
of a roof meet. See cuts under hip-roof and 
jack-rafter To have or catch on the hip, to have or 
get the advantage over (one) : a phrase borrowed probably 
from wrestlers. 
I'll /""- our Michael Cassio on //" hip. 
Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 
Nay, now I know I have him on the hip, 
I'll follow it. 
Fletcher (and another), Noble Gentleman, ii. 1. 
hip 1 (hip), v. t. ; pret. and pp. hipped, ppr. hip- 
ping. [< hipl, n.] 1. To sprain, gall, or injure 
the hip of. In the extract the sense is doubt- 
ful. 
His horse hipped i 
of no kindred. 
ii h an old mothy saddle, and stirrups 
Shak., T. of the S., iii. 2. 
2. In arch., to furnish with a hip: as, to hip a 
roof. 3. To throw (one's adversary) over the 
hip. Dames. 
And a prime wrestler as e'er tript, 
E'er gave the Cornish hug or hipt. 
Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque, p. 202. 
hip 2 , hep (hip, hep), H. [Different shortenings 
of reg. heep; < ME. heepe, hepe (hepe), < AS. 
heope, the fruit of the dogrose, also (ONorth. 
dat. heope, heape) a bramble, hedp-bremel, hip- 
bramble, dogrose, = OS. liiopo = OHG. hiufo, 
MHG. hiefe, a bramble-bush. Origin unknown ; 
not connected with OBulg. ship&ku, Bulg. shi- 
puk, rose, Buss, shipii, Bohem. ship, a thorn, 
etc.] The fruit of the dogrose or wild brier, 
Rosa canina or R. rubiginosa. 
Sweet as is the brembre flour 
That bereth the reede heepe. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 36. 
The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips. 
Shak.,1. of A., iv. 3. 
Where thou shall eat of the hips and haws, 
And the roots that are BO sweet. 
The West-Country Damosel's Complaint (Child's Ballads, 
[II. 384). 
Almost every autumn may be heard the remark that a 
hard winter is coming, for that the hips and haws are 
abundant. H. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 25. 
hip 3 (hip), v. i. ; pret. and pp. hipped, ppr. hip- 
ping, [s ME. hippen, happen, hyppen, < AS. 
"hyppan (= OD. huppen = OHG. "hupfen, MHG. 
hupfen, hiipfen, G. hiipfen), hop, a secondary 
form of hoppian, ME. happen, E. hop : 
To hop. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Hope cam hippyng after that hadde so ybosted 
How he with Moyses maundement hadde many men 
y-holpe. Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 59. 
And old wyves that myght evyll goo, 
They hypped on theyr staves. 
Lytell Oeste of Robyn Hade (Child's Ballads, V. 119). 
hip 4 , hyp (hip), n. [Abbr. of hypochondria' 1 , 
q. v.] A morbid depression of spirits; melan- 
choly: usually in the plural. 
When his mind is serene, when he is neither in a pas- 
sion, nor in the hips (solicitus), nor in liquor, then, being 
in private, you may kindly advise him. 
N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 130. 
Heaven send thou hast not got the Hyps. 
How ? Not a word come from thy lips ? 
Swift, Cassinus and Peter. 
A little while ago thou wast all fnp and vapour, and 
now thou dost nothing but patronise fun. 
Miss Burney, Camilla, vi. 10. 
hip 4 , hyp (hip), r. t. ; pret. and pp. hipped, 
hypped, nipt, or hypt, ppr. hipping or hypping. 
[< hip*, hyp, n.] To render hypochondriac or 
melancholy : scarcely used except as in the par- 
ticipial adjective hipped. See hipped?. 
hip 5 (hip), interj. [A mere introductory sylla- 
ble.] An exclamation used in applauding or 
giving the signal for applause: as, hip, hip, 
hurrah ! 
There is no rising from it [dinner], but to toss off the 
glass, and huzza after the hip ! hip ! hip I of the toast 
giver. Hone's Every. Day Book, II. 12. 
hip-bath (hip'bath), n. A form of portable 
bath, intended for sitting in, so that only the 
hips and the lower part of the trunk are sub- 
merged. Also called sitz-bath. 
hip-belt (hip'belt), n. Same as hip-girdle, 2. 
hipberry (hip'ber'i), .; pi. hipberries (-iz). The 
hip or fruit of Rosa canina, the dogrose. 
hip-bone (hip'bon), . [< ME. liepe-boon; < hip 1 
+ ftone 1 .] The ischium, or inferior part of the 
pelvis on each side: loosely extended to the 
whole innominate bone which forms each side 
of the pelvis, and to the upper part of the thigh- 
bone. Also called haunch-bone. 
Woundyd sore and evyll he-gone, 
And brokyn was hys hepe-boon. 
MS. Cantab, ft. ii. 38, f. 122. (HaUiwell.) 
Hippeastrum 
hip-brier (hip'bri"er), ii. The wild brier, Rosa 
rnhii/inoKii. Also called hip-rose. 
hip-girdle (hip'ger"dl), . 1. The pelvic arch 
or girdle. See girdle^. 2. The sword-belt of 
the latter part of the fourteenth century, which 
passed diagonally from the waist on the right 
side and behind to the left hip: so named to 
distinguish it from the earlier sword-belt, which 
fitted closely around the waist. Also called hip- 
belt. 
hip-gout (hip'gout), n. Sciatica. 
hip-haltt (hip'halt), a. Lame; limping. Hal- 
liwetl. 
hip-hapet, [< hipl + hap 1 *.] A covering 
for the hips: a term of contempt. 
These clothes will never fadge with me : a pox o' this 
filthy vardingale, this hip-hape! 
Fletcher {and another), Love's Cure, ii. 2. 
hip-hop (hip'hop), adv. [< hip% + hop 1 ; or a 
redupl. of hop 1 , with usual weakening of first 
part.] With hopping gait. [Bare.] 
Thus while he strives to please, he's forc'd to do 't 
Like Volscius, hip-hop in a single boot. Congreve. 
hip-joint (hip'joint), n. The articulation of the 
femur or thigh-bone with the innominate bone 
or haunch-bone ; the proximal articulation of 
the hind limb, corresponding to the shoulder- 
joint of the fore limb. The head of the femur is re- 
ceived into the acetabulum or cotyloid cavity at the junc- 
tion of the ilium, ischium, and pubis, thus constituting a 
ball-and-socket joint, capable of movement in every direc- 
tion, and uniting to a remarkable degree mobility with 
stability. Hip-Joint disease. See disease. 
hip-knob (hip'nob), n. In arch., a finial or 
other similar ornament placed on the top of 
the hip of a roof, or on the apex of a gable. 
When used upon timber gables, the lower part of the hip- 
knob generally terminates in a pendant. See cut under 
hip-roof. 
hiplingst, adv. [< hipl + -</2.] By the hips. 
It was a woman child, stillborn, about two months be- 
fore the just time, having life a few hours before ; it came 
hiplings till . . . [the midwife] turned it. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 314. 
hip-lock (hip'lok), n. In wrestling, a close grip, 
in which one of the contestants places a leg and 
hip in front of the other contestant, and at- 
tempts to push him over them to the ground. 
The Tartar broke the sash and shoulder hold, rushed in 
fiercely, caught him around the body, and, with a hip- 
lock and a tremendous heave, threw him over his head. 
The Century, XXXVI. 373. 
hip-molding, hip-mold (hip 'mol* ding, hip'- 
mold), re. In arch., a molding on the rafter that 
forms the hip of a roof. By some workmen the 
word is used to signify the back of a hip. 
Hippa (hip'a), n. [NL.,< Gr. iirirof, a horse, a sea- 
fish: see hippus.~\ The typical 
genus of the family Hippida;. 
The Brazilian H. emmta is an ex- 
ample. The animals burrow in the 
sand. //. talpoidea is called sand- 
bug in the United States. 
Hipparion (hi-pa'ri-on), n. 
[NL., < Gr. Iwapiov, a pony, 
dim. of (Trjrof, a horse : see hip- 
pu$.~\ A genus of Miocene and 
Pliocene fossil horses, of the 
family Equidte, having three 
toes, a median functional hoof *"%%&}** 
with a false hoof on each side. 
The species are regarded as in the direct line of descent 
of the living horse ; they were of comparatively small size, 
from that of a goat to that of an ass. H. gracile is an ex- 
ample. Also called Hippotherium. Christol, 1834. 
Hipparitherium (hi-pa-ri-the'ri-um), w. [NL., 
< Gr. imrapiov, a pony (see Hipparion), + tiijpiov, 
a wild beast.] Same as Anchitherium. Christol. 
Hippeastreae (hip-e-as'tre-e), n. pi. [NL.,< Hip- 
peastrum + -e<K.~\ A subtribe of monocotyledo- 
nous plants, of the natural order Amaryllidaceas, 
tribe Amaryllece, established by Kunth in 1850, 
and typified by the genus Hippeastrum. 
Hippeastrum (hip-e-as'trum), n. [NL., < Gr. 
iTTTrof, a horse, + acrpov, a star ; so called from 
the star-like mark on the corolla, and in allu- 
sion to the popular name Tcmght's-star lily.] A 
genus of plants, belonging to the natural or- 
der Amaryllidacece, tribe Amaryllece, and type of 
Kunth's subtribe Hippeastrea: They have an in- 
fundibuliform perianth with a short tube and with the 
faucial membrane deficient on the lower side, and an ir- 
regular limb. The stamens are unequal, declined, and un- 
equally fixed ; the ovary is 3-celled ; the style 3-lobed or 3- 
cleft; the leaves are 2-ranked and narrow; the stem is flstu- 
lous ; the bulbs are tunicate ; and the flowers in a 2- to many- 
flowered umbel. About 50 species are known, natives of 
South America and the West Indies. They are known in 
cultivation as the kniyht's-star lily or equestrian star, many 
of the species being large and very showy. They com- 
prise most of th plants of hothouses cultivated under 
the name of AtnnrijlliK. H. aulicutn, H. equestre, and H. 
regium are crimson, scarlet, or orange-red with a green 
