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is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.

y a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak.

etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obs.] Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. Sylvester. Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Bacon. Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. South.

To bottle. [R.] Phillips.

To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud. Churchill.

vants; wages. [Obs.] The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. Sir J. Davies.

Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Whillock.

the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.

at is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively. Mr. Phillips did express with much indignation against me, one evening. Pope.

Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

A barren or rocky hill. T. Gray.

d, etc. -- Fever and ague, a form of fever recurring in paroxysms which are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin. -- Fever blister (Med.), a blister or vesicle often found about the mouth in febrile states; a variety of herpes. -- Fever bush (Bot.), the wild allspice or spice bush. See Spicewood. -- Fever p…

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

A thill horse. [Prov. Eng.]

Strength; firmness; stability. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.

h their broad plumes and float upon the wind. Pope. There seems a floating whisper on the hills. Byron.

An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value. Camden.

coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.