hilsute.html - See: GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE or GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL, HEAD FOR THE HILLS.

hilsute.html - See: TO THE HILT or UP TO THE HILT.

hilsute.html - pl. of HILUM.

hilsute.html - adj.
1 exceedingly funny.
2 boisterously merry.

hilariously adv. hilariousness n. hilarity n. [L hilaris f. Gk hilaros cheerful]

hilsute.html - n.
Brit. the university term beginning in January, esp. at Oxford. [Hilarius bishop of Poitiers d. 367, with a festival on 13 Jan.]

hilsute.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a a naturally raised area of land, not as high as a mountain. b (as the hills) Anglo-Ind. = hill-station.
2 (often in comb.) a heap; a mound (anthill; dunghill).
3 a sloping piece of road.

--v.

tr.
1 form into a hill.
2 (usu. foll. by up) bank up (plants) with soil.

hill and dale (of a gramophone record) with groove-undulations in a vertical plane. hill-billy (pl. -ies) US 1 colloq., often derog. a person from a remote rural area in a southern State (cf. HICK).
2 folk music of or like that of the southern US. hill climb a race for vehicles up a steep hill. hill-fort a fort built on a hill. hill-station Anglo-Ind. a government settlement, esp. for holidays etc. during the hot season, in the low mountains of N. India. old as the hills very ancient. over the hill colloq.
1 past the prime of life; declining.
2 past the crisis. up hill and down dale see UP . [OE hyll]