Hill (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hilled (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hilling.] To surround with earth; to heap or draw
earth around or upon; as, to hill corn. Showing them how to plant
and hill it. Palfrey.
Hill (?), n. [OE.
hil, hul, AS. hyll; akin to OD.
hille, hil, L. collis, and prob. to E.
haulm, holm, and column. Cf. 2d Holm.] 1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth
rising above the common level of the
surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. Every mountain and hill shall be made
low. Is. xl.
4. 2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of
plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
3. A single cluster or group of
plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill
of corn or
potatoes. [U. S.] Hill ant (Zoöl.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests. -- Hill myna (Zoöl.), one of several species of birds of India, of the genus Gracula, and allied to
the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also hill mynah.] See Myna. -- Hill partridge (Zoöl.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Hill tit (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family
Leiotrichidæ. Many are beautifully colored.
Quotes From Classical Literature on 'hill'You can hear pronunciation of the quotes if you click on  . The sound files tend to be pretty big.
 Euphrates shells. In addition to canals and escapes, the
Babylonian system included well-constructed dikes protected by
brushwood. By cutting an eight- mile channel through a low hill
between the Habbâ nîyah and Abu Dî s depressions and by building a
short dam 50 ft. high across the latter' s narrow outlet, Sir
William Willcocks estimates that a reservoir could be obtained
holding eighteen milliards of tons of water. See his work / The
Irrigations of Mesopotamia/ ( E. and F. N. Spon, 1911),
This attempt of mine to test Mrs. Coventry' s accuracy was made in the
course of a late afternoon walk to the quiet old church of San
Miniato, on one of the hill -tops which directly overlook the city,
from whose gates you are guided to it by a stony and cypress-bordered
walk, which seems a very fitting avenue to a shrine. No spot is more
propitious to lingering repose than the broad terrace in front of the
church, where, lounging against the parapet, you may glance in slow
alternation from the black and yellow marbles of the church facade,
unmistakable undertones for a warmer, lower humanity. The same
figure-- tradition connects it with Simonetta, the Mistress of Giuliano
de' Medici--appears again as Judith, returning home across the hill
country, when the great deed is over, and the moment of revulsion come,
when the olive branch in her hand is becoming a burthen; as Justice,
sitting on a throne, but with a fixed look of self- hatred which makes
the sword in her hand seem that of a suicide; and again as Veritas, in
the allegorical picture of Calumnia, where one may note in passing the
Wildly panting here and there,
Bunny sought the freer air,
Till he hopped below the hill ,
And saw, lying close and still,
Men with muskets in their hands.
( Never Bunny understands
That hypocrisy of sleep,
In the vigils grim they keep,
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