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rag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.

Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven. Phillips. Bailey.

A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.

The top of a thing; the head; a crest. [Obs.] Cop they used to call The tops of many hills. Dra

Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point. A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt.

A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide.

An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.…

many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

h, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [Southwestern U. S.]

To congeal or thicken. My chill blood is curdled in my veins. Dryden.

To restore health; to effect a cure. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. Shak.

ines. -- To cut short, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a sudden termination. "Achilles cut him short, and thus replied." Dryden. -- To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. [Slang] -- To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce through the gum and appear. -- To have cut one's…

Chilling; penetratinn; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

A low place between hills; a vle or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.

erman Southwest Africa. The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe, and the Hill Damaras, who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus.