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Hill; mountain. [South Africa]

A hillock; a small kop. [South Africa]

; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. The stone that labors up the hill. Granville. The line too labors,and the words move slow. Pope. To cure the disorder under which he labored. Sir W. Scott. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matt. xi. 28…

öl) (a) The crake or corncrake of Europe. See Crake. (b) An Australian rail (Hypotænidia Phillipensis); -- called also pectoral rail. -- Land scrip, a certificate that the purchase money for a certain portion of the public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it. [U.S.] -- Land shark, a swindler of sa…

Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple. Landmarks of history, important events by which eras or conditions are determined.

sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.

The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.

A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [Obs.] In a laund upon an hill of flowers. Chaucer. Through this laund anon the deer will come. Shak.

Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills. Laurentian period (Geol.), the lower of the two divisions of the Archæan age; -- called also the Laurentian.

Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.) They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill. Luke iv. 29. In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. Milton.

lators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips.

The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. [Prov. Eng.]

d to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child. He sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. Luke xix. 3.

he base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.

Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.

A hill; a mound; a grave. [Obs. except in place names.] Skeat.

A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.

larial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills…

A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. Westmin. Rev.

and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.