hill

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A well-defined natural elevation smaller than a mountain.
2. n. A small heap, pile, or mound.
3. n. A mound of earth piled around and over a plant.
4. n. A plant thus covered.
5. n. An incline, especially of a road; a slope.
6. n. Capitol Hill. Often used with the.
7. n. The U.S. Congress. Often used with the.
8. v. To form into a hill, pile, or heap.
9. v. To cover (a plant) with a mound of soil.
10. idiom. over the hill Informal Past one's prime.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A conspicuous natural elevation of the earth's surface; a natural eminence of indefinite height, usually rounded or conical. The name hill is usually applied to elevations smaller than a mountain and larger than a mound; but the terms are merely relative, elevations of the same height being called hills in one locality and mountains in another, usually according to the more or less mountainous character of the region.
2. n. A heap; a hillock; a pile: as, a dunghill; an ant-hill; a mole-hill.
3. n. A little mound raised about a cluster of cultivated plants: as, a hill of maize or potatoes.
4. n. In heraldry, the representation of a hill, usually green when only one is used.
5. To form small hills or heaps of earth around; form into hills or heaps: as, to hill corn; to hill the ground.
6. To heap; accumulate.
7. To form into a heap; gather.
8. To cover.
9. To pour out.
10. n. The cluster of plants in a hill. Formerly, the practice of ‘hilling’ was general, when only hand tools were used; but latterly the universal tendency is to practise level culture. While the hill itself has disappeared, the group of plants has taken the name. A ‘hill,’ therefore, is a more or less separated or detached group of two or more plants, in contradistinction to the single plants that follow each other regularly in a drill.
11. To assemble on rising ground.

Wiktionary

1. n. An elevated location smaller than a mountain.
2. n. A sloping road.
3. n. A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
4. n. baseball The pitcher’s mound.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
3. n. United States A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.
4. v. To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. risque English comedian (1925-1992)
2. n. a local and well-defined elevation of the land
3. n. (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
4. n. United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)
5. v. form into a hill
6. n. structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones