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To indicate by signs or hints; to indicate imperfectly. [R.] Dr. H. More.

To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation. Why do I yield to that suggestion Shak.

Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. -- Sug*gest"ive*ly, adv. -- Sug*gest"ive*ness, n.

Slight degree; suggestion; hint. [Colloq.] The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor. A. W. Ward.

please; to gain reception; to succeed. Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it, if the thing should take. Addison.

Lit., King of Heaven; -- a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion.

as liquor. -- To tip over, to overturn. -- To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope. -- To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

One who makes a practice of giving or selling tips, or private hints or information, esp. for use in gambling upon the probable outcome of events, as horse races.

A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. A small touch will put him in mind of them. Bacon.

In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.

To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate. Swift.