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Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones.

robably owe their intermittent action to their being connected with natural reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice o…

To be or come between. Long hid by interposing hill or wood. Cowper.

e; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills. 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, A dreadful interval. Milton.

A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.

nterval. [R.] And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.

making such a ditch. On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills. Washington.

To send in or put in; to insert or introduce. Greenhill.

Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent. W. Phillips.

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

., the date traditionally given for the Creation. It received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the time of the Babylonian Exile. Nineteen years constitute a lunar cycle, of which the…

-- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. [U.S.] J. F. Cooper.

gnity of a king; like a kingdom. [R.] "Twixt his mental and his active parts, Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages And batters down himself. Shak.

Same as Kinglet, 1. Churchill.

The rugged top of a hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill. On knoll or hillock rears his crest, Lonely and huge, the giant oak. Sir W. Scott.

e, which, not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.