[hil] 
| 1. | a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain. |
| 2. | an incline, esp. in a road: This old jalopy won't make it up the next hill. |
| 3. | an artificial heap, pile, or mound: a hill made by ants. |
| 4. | a small mound of earth raised about a cultivated plant or a cluster of such plants. |
| 5. | the plant or plants so surrounded: a hill of potatoes. |
| 6. | Baseball. mound 1 (def. 4). |
| 7. | the Hill. Capitol Hill. |
| 8. | to surround with hills: to hill potatoes. |
| 9. | to form into a hill or heap. |
| 10. | go over the hill, Slang.
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| 11. | over the hill,
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n summit (see colophon )
[hil] | 1. | Ambrose Pow⋅ell [pou-uhl] , 1825–65, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War. |
| 2. | Archibald Viv⋅i⋅an [viv-ee-uhn] , 1886–1977, English physiologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1922. |
| 3. | James Jerome, 1838–1916, U.S. railroad builder and financier, born in Canada. |
| 4. | Joe, 1879–1915, U.S. labor organizer and songwriter, born in Sweden. |
| 1. | the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands. |
| 2. | Informal. the U.S. Congress. |
| hill (hĭl) n.
[Middle English hil, from Old English hyll; see kel-2 in Indo-European roots.] hill'er n. |
| Hill, Ambrose Powell 1825-1865. American Confederate officer active in the Seven Days' Battle, the Second Battle of Bull Run, and the Battle of Antietam (all 1862). Units under his command began the Battle of Gettysburg (1863). |
| Hill, James J (erome) American railroad magnate who promoted the Great Northern Railway and with J.P. Morgan gained control of the Northern Pacific Railroad in a stock market struggle that provoked the Panic of 1901. |
A hill in Washington, D.C., on which the United States Capitol building sits. (See photo, next page.) The House of Representatives and the Senate meet in the Capitol. (See on the Hill.)
"In Great Britain heights under 2,000 feet are generally called hills; 'mountain' being confined to the greater elevations of the Lake District, of North Wales, and of the Scottish Highlands; but, in India, ranges of 5,000 and even 10,000 feet are commonly called 'hills,' in contrast with the Himalaya Mountains, many peaks of which rise beyond 20,000 feet." [OED]
Hill (hĭl), Archibald Vivian. 1886-1977.
British physiologist. He shared a 1922 Nobel Prize for his investigation of heat production in muscles and nerves.
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.
hill
see downhill all the way; go downhill; head for (the hills); make a mountain out of a molehill; not worth a dime (hill of beans); old as Adam (the hills); over the hill.