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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hill \Hill\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Hilled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hilling}.] To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.
Showing them how to plant and hill it. --Palfrey.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hill \Hill\, noun [OE. hil, hul, AS. hyll; akin to OD. hille, hil, L. collis, and prob. to E. haulm, holm, and column. Cf. 2d {Holm}.]
1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
Every mountain and hill shall be made low. --Is. xl. 4.
2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See {Hill}, verb (used with an object)
3. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. [U. S.]
{Hill ant} (Zo["o]l.), a common ant ({Formica rufa}), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests.
{Hill myna} (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of birds of India, of the genus {Gracula}, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also {hill mynah}.] See {Myna}.
{Hill partridge} (Zo["o]l.), a partridge of the genus {Aborophila}, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies.
{Hill tit} (Zo["o]l.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family {Leiotrichid[ae]}. Many are beautifully colored.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hill
noun
1: a local and well-defined elevation of the land
2: structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind" [syn: {mound}]
3: United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) [syn: {J. J. Hill}, {James Jerome Hill}]
4: risque English comedian (1925-1992) [syn: {Benny Hill}, {Alfred Hawthorne}]
5: (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands [syn: {mound}, {pitcher's mound}]
verb: form into a hill
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "hill": acclivity, anthill, bank, bank up, barrow, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, cock, condyle, convex, decline, declivity, dowel, down, downgrade, downs, drift, drumlin, dune, ear, elevation, embankment, eminence, fell, flange, flap, foothill, foothills, gall, gnarl, grade, gradient, handle, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, height, highland, hillock, hummock, hump, hunch, incline, jog, joggle, knob, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mount, mountain, mow, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, pile, pile up, prominence, promontory, pyramid, rib, rick, ridge, ring, rise, sand dune, shock, shoulder, slope, snowdrift, spine, stack, stack up, stud, style, swell, tab, tor, tubercle, tubercule, upgrade, upland, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Hill, NH Zip code(s): 03243
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Hill -- U.S. County in Montana Population (2000): 16673 Housing Units (2000): 7453 Land area (2000): 2896.361217 sq. miles (7501.540796 sq. km) Water area (2000): 19.686170 sq. miles (50.986945 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2916.047387 sq. miles (7552.527741 sq. km) Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30 Location: 48.559559 N, 110.030529 W Headwords: Hill Hill, MT Hill County Hill County, MT
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Hill -- U.S. County in Texas Population (2000): 32321 Housing Units (2000): 14624 Land area (2000): 962.360148 sq. miles (2492.501234 sq. km) Water area (2000): 23.287823 sq. miles (60.315182 sq. km) Total area (2000): 985.647971 sq. miles (2552.816416 sq. km) Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48 Location: 31.996685 N, 97.156742 W Headwords: Hill Hill, TX Hill County Hill County, TX
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Hill (1.) Heb. gib'eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common to Palestine (Ps. 65:12; 72:3; 114:4, 6). (2.) Heb. har, properly a mountain range rather than an individual eminence (Ex. 24:4, 12, 13, 18; Num. 14:40, 44, 45). In Deut. 1:7, Josh. 9:1; 10:40; 11:16, it denotes the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, which forms the watershed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. (3.) Heb. ma'aleh in 1 Sam. 9:11. Authorized Version "hill" is correctly rendered in the Revised Version "ascent." (4.) In Luke 9:37 the "hill" is the Mount of Transfiguration.
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