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A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.

by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel. The tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral. Milton.

An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

odesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark. How old may Phillis be, you ask. Prior.

To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other. J. C. Shairp.

Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.

A dunghill. [Prov. Eng.]

A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow. Water milfoil (Bot.), an aquatic herb with dissected leaves (Myriophyllum).

To slight or undervalue. O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Mrs. Browning.

A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.

To clear of molehills. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.

A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill. Mortimer.

by the scholars at Eton school, England, of giing every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence. [Written also monticule.]

the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak.

A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A round hill or point of land; hence, Morro castle, a castle on a hill.

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound mak…

rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.