Part 840

Shak.

The hint malevolent, the look oblique.

Hannah More.

Syn. -- Suggestion; allusion. See Suggestion.

Hint"ing*ly (?), adv. In a hinting manner.

Hip (?), n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h¸fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. hˆft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. &?; the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]

1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. Waddell.

Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone. -- Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle. -- Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone. -- Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. -- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. -- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof. -- Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3. -- Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof. -- To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak. -- To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.

Hip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping.] 1. To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.

Hip (?), n. [OE. hepe, AS. heÛpe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.] (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.]

Hip tree (Bot.), the dog- rose.

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

Hip, or Hipps (&?;), n. See Hyp, n. [Colloq.]

Hip"halt` (?), a. Lame in the hip. [R.] Gower.

{ Hip"pa (?), Hip"pe (?), } n. (Zoˆl.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.

||Hip*pa"ri*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a pony, dim. of &?; a horse.] ||(Paleon.) 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.

{ Hipped (?), Hip"pish (?), } a. [From 5th Hip.] Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.]

When we are hipped or in high spirits.

R. L. Stevenson.

||Hip`po*bos"ca (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "i`ppos horse + &?; to feed.] ||(Zoˆl.) A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse ||tick. -- Hip`po*bos"can (#), a.

Hip"po*camp (?), n. See Hippocampus.

Hip`po*cam"pal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

Hip`po*cam"pus (?), n. [L., the sea horse, Gr. &?; a hippocampus (in senses 1 and 2); "i`ppos horse + &?; to bend.] 1. (Class. Myth.) 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. Fairholt.