having a rank above that of another.

A superior officer or official; a person having greater rank or station or quality than others; -- used chiefly in pl.

Rising higher; ascending.

Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish.

High-flown, bombastic language.

One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners; one who is highfaluting.

Same as highflier.

Extravagant in opinions or ambition.

Same as highjacking.

The seizure of control of a vehicle while it is in transit, either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.

Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.

of, located in, or characteristic of high or hilly country. Contrasted to lowland.

a soldier in a Scottish Highland regiment.

Highlanders, collectively.

The part of an image that has the most intense light.

In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.

very complex or intricate; -- used especially of technology.

having unusually intense sexual desire or appeal.

Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers.

Highest.

The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.

A highway; a much traveled or main road.

To be called or named.

That which heightens.

Variant of Height.

Hoity-toity.

A road or way open to the use of the public, especially a paved main road or thoroughfare between towns; in the latter sense it contrasts with local street; as, on the highways and byways.

Robbery committed on the public roads.

One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.

See Eagre.

See Hegira.

The act of hiking.

Of or pertaining to a hilum.

Belonging to the hilum.

Mirthful; noisy; merry.

Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity.

A base, menial wretch. Base; spiritless.

Same as Hilum.

To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.

The state of being hilly.

The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

A small hill.

The side or declivity of a hill.

The top of a hill.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.

A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.

The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.

Same as Hilum, 2.

The objective case of he. See He.

Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Asia.

A small genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Mediterranean region.

one of two genera of stilts; they are similar to avocets but with straight bills.

A hymn.

An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.

See 1st Himself.

Themselves. See Hemself.

Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.

a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts.

In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

The raspberry.

The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.

To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.

Same as Hindrance.

One who, or that which, hinders.

Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a.

A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal.

The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.

The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindus. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.

Furthest in or toward the rear; last.

Same as Hindustani. See Hindoostanee.

the back half of a side of meat, from about the twelfth rib back.

the fleshy part of the human body at the back of the hip, on which a person sits; teh buttocks.

The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.

a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg.

understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; as, hindsight is always clearer than foresight.

Same as Hindoo. This is now the more commonly used spelling.

A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.

the dominant religion of India; characterized by a caste system anud belief in reincarnation.

The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindus; Brahmanism.

northern region of India where Hinduism predominates.

a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India.

Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language. The language of Hindustan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.

A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind.

To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.

Furnished with hinges.

Without a hinge or joint.

A reaping hook.

A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey.

To neigh; to whinny.

A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.

a remote and undeveloped area; originally, the land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.

In a hinting manner.

Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep.

Having a hip roof.

Either of two large flaring bones, each forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis.

To throw by means of a hipe.

A small portable flask, usually made of metal, used to hold liquor.

Lame in the hip.

having hips which are not prominent; seeming to have no hips; as, slim and hipless; -- of people. Opposite of broad-hipped

the line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part.

An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.

A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.

An amaryllis of tropical America (Hippeastrum puniceum) often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers.

having hips; or, having hips of a specified type; -- used in combination; as, wide-hipped.

Someone who rejects the established culture, dresses casually, and advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle. Used especially of those in the late 1960's, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, who conspicuously rejected traditional culture by dressing casually, if male wore their hair long, and wore folksy or used clothing adorned with beads, headbands, and often flowers; they emphasized the importance of love and direct personal relations rather than success-oriented businesslike behavior, strove for spontaneity, sometimes lived communally, and in some cases tried to expand their consciousness by various psychological techniques such as meditation, or through the use of consciousness-altering drugs such as marijuana or LSD. By the end of the Vietnam war in the 1970's, the numbers of people living a visibly hippie lifestyle had dramatically decreased, though some people continue to develop similar views and live with the same outlook.

Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish.

Same as hippopotamus.

A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.

A natural family of winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies.

See Hippocampus.

Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.

Same as Centaur.

A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 b. c.

Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.

The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.