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acent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.

emoan; to bewail. As if he mourned his rival's ill success. Addison. And looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return. Emerson.

m one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly. The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Ps. xviii. 7. On the green bank I sat and listened long, ... Nor till her lay was ended could I move. Dryden.

A dunghill. [Scot.]

Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.] Sir. J. Hill.

ey resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird. [Spelt also mynah.]

One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.

Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to. Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys.

In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.

uty." Proudfit. That's your true plan -- to obligate The present ministers of state. Churchill.

A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock.

A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill. The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration. Bacon.

gher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. [Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them. Shak.

al privileges. Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See Palace.

A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon. Macaulay.

ch is pared off. Pope. Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the parings raise your hills. Mortimer.

he high mountains of Asia. -- Spruce partridge. See under Spruce. -- Wood partridge, or Hill partridge (Zoöl.), any small Asiatic partridge of the genus Arboricola.

lly, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.