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Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike. Pope.

landlord. Chaucer. "Fair host and Earl." Tennyson. Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

of Hang. Hung beef, the fleshy part of beef slightly salted and hung up to dry; dried beef.

An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin. But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Tennyson.

A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure. Death comes on with equal footsteps To the hall and hut. Bp. Coxe.

Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea.

A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization. Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was. L. Caroll.

ers. -- Ill temper, anger; moroseness; crossness. -- Ill turn. (a) An unkind act. (b) A slight attack of illness. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Ill will, unkindness; enmity; malevolence.

Subject; matter. [Obs.] Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak.

to me indifferent. Shak. Everything in the world is indifferent but sin. Jer. Taylor. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. Hawthorne.

To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton.

A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as any set sickness. Hayward.

(Med.), a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.

To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office. The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern. Locke.…

An encroachment or infringement. The slight intrenchment upon individual freedom. Southey.

A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. Burns.

Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate; slight disagreement. And yet his peace is but continual jar. Spenser. Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace. Shak.

A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt. To give them by turns an invisible jog. Swift.

To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.