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pose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.

nd was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.

hich troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.

To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

; to naturalize. [Obs.] There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard HillStrype.

iduals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. Burke.

ct of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. This desperation of success chills all our industry. Hammond.

The ridge of a hill.

A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural. Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.

A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation. [Western U.S.] Bartlett.

A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land. [U.S.]

a dumb white or dun color. De Foe. Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute. -- Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined "chill." [U.S.] -- Dumb animal, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a "speaking animal…

A mound or small hill.

A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.…

A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.

Brow; ridge. [Obs.] "Eaves of the hill." Wyclif.

To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box. Hills whose tops were edged with groves. Pope.