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- English Word Hip Definition In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- English Word Hip Definition 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.
- English Word Hip Definition To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
- English Word Hip Definition To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
- English Word Hip Definition The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).
- English Word Hip Definition Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
- English Word Hip Definition Alt. of Hipps
- English Word Hip tree Definition The dog-rose.
- English Word Hip-roofed Definition Having a hip roof.
- English Word Hiphalt Definition Lame in the hip.
- English Word Hippa Definition Alt. of Hippe
- English Word Hipparion Definition 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.
- English Word Hippe Definition A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura.
- English Word Hipped Definition of Hip
- English Word Hipped Definition Alt. of Hippish
- English Word Hipping Definition of Hip
- English Word Hippish Definition Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish.
- English Word Hippobosca Definition A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick.
- English Word Hippocamp Definition See Hippocampus.
- English Word Hippocampal Definition Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.
- English Word Hippocampus Definition 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.
- English Word Hippocampus Definition A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
- English Word Hippocampus Definition A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
- English Word Hippocentaur Definition Same as Centaur.
- English Word Hippocras Definition A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
- English Word Hippocrates Definition A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.
- English Word Hippocratic Definition Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.
- English Word Hippocratism Definition The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.
- English Word Hippocrene Definition A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration.
- English Word Hippocrepian Definition One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema.