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A small hill. Shak.

A mound; a hillock. W. Browne.

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.

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.

Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Whillock.

of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.

A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram.

A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill. On knoll or hillock rears his crest, Lonely and huge, the giant oak. Sir W. Scott.

A hillock; a small kop. [South Africa]

A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. Westmin. Rev.

A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty. Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill. South.

by the scholars at Eton school, England, of giing every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence. [Written also monticule.]

a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound maker (below). -- Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times,…

A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock.

A little hillock; a knoll. Ainsworth.

Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock. Pinkerton.

An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.