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<hw>Hint</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hinted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hinting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>henten</ets>, <ets>hinten</ets>, to seize, to catch, AS. <ets>hentan</ets> to pursue, take, seize; or Icel. <ets>ymta</ets> to mutter, <ets>ymtr</ets> a muttering, Dan. <ets>ymte</ets> to whisper. &root;36. Cf. <er>Hent</er>.]</ety> <def>To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; <as>as, to <ex>hint</ex> a suspicion</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Just <b>hint</b> a fault and hesitate dislike. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply.</syn>

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<hw>Hint</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.</def>

<blockquote>We whisper, and <b>hint</b>, and chuckle. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To hint at</col>, <cd>to allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To allude; refer; glance; touch.</syn>

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<hw>Hint</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.</def>

<blockquote>Our <b>hint</b> of woe Is common. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The hint malevolent, the look oblique. <i>Hannah M<?/<?/e.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Suggestion; allusion. See <er>Suggestion</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Hint"ing*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a hinting manner.</def>

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<hw>Hip</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hipe</ets>, <ets>huppe</ets>, AS. <ets>hype</ets>; akin to D. <ets>heup</ets>, OHG. <ets>huf</ets>, G. <ets>h\'81fte</ets>, Dan. <ets>hofte</ets>, Sw. <ets>h\'94ft</ets>, Goth. <ets>hups</ets>; cf. Icel. <ets>huppr</ets>, and also Gr. <?/ the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. <ets>kumpis</ets> ham.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Engin)</fld> <def>In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.</def>

<i>Waddell.</i>

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

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<hw>Hip</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hipped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hipping</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called <i>cross buttock</i>).</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.</def>

<cs><col>Hipped roof</col>. <cd>See <cref>Hip roof</cref>, under <er>Hip</er>.</cd></cs>