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Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

A pruning hook. [Usually written hand bill.]

A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.

A hedge bill. See under Hedge.

A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.

mmon level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. Every mountain and hill shall be made low. Is. xl. 4.

The state of being hilly.

The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

A small hill. Shak.

The side or declivity of a hill.

The top of a hill.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. "Hilly steep." Dryden.

Having a strongly curved bill.

ally large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

A city hall or townhouse.

Uncivilly. [Obs.] Shak.

Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable.

Situated below the axil, as a bud.

Under the lower jaw; submaxillary; as, the inframaxillary nerve.

Incapacity of being engendered or produced. Cudworth.