Chapter Himalayan to Hippocampus of H by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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

Hip
(Hip) n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. hüfte, Dan. hofte, Sw. höft, 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
(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

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

Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hipparion
(||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
(Hipped Hip"pish) a. [From 5th Hip.] Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.]

When we are hipped or in high spirits.

R. L. Stevenson.