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trip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on. The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning. Milton.

Furnished with hinges.

Without a hinge or joint.

A reaping hook. Knight.

To neigh; to whinny. [Obs.]

A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.

to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike. Pope.

The land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.

In a hinting manner.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Watts.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

That aches; continuously painful. See Ache. -- Ach"ing*ly, adv. The aching heart, the aching head. Longfellow.

Altogether. [Obs.] Shak.

The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.

A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.