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A declivity or slope, as of a hill. [R.] Dryden.

A large mass or hill, as of ice. Glittering bergs of ice. Tennyson .

A hill. [Obs.]

A mound; a hillock. W. Browne.

rther side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher.

ff, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill. Thomson.

A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. Lyttleton. At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." Hakluyt.

A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

Kind; bountiful; benign. Which . . . Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.

t ball. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak.

A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill. [Scot.] Burns.

rgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.

rom detection, seize the unwary prey. And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way. Churchill.

A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Fairfax.

e front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton.

streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles. The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets. Thackeray. Ports bristling with thousands of masts. Macaulay.

Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.

it. And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, With solemn proof proclaims him wise. Churchill.