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To throw by means of a hipe. -- Hip"er (#), n.

A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.

Of or pertaining to an archipelago.

The Grecian Archipelago, or Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.

One who worships wrongly.

One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores. [Written also worshipper.]

One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. "An adorer of truth." Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.

A worshiper of the stars. Morley.

A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.

Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

ate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. Jer. Taylor.

A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago.

Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.