hint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A slight indication or intimation: wanted to avoid any hint of scandal.
2. n. A brief or indirect suggestion; a tip: stock-trading hints.
3. n. A statement conveying information in an indirect fashion; a clue: Give me a hint about the big news.
4. n. A barely perceptible amount: just a hint of color.
5. n. Archaic An occasion; an opportunity.
6. v. To indicate or make known in an indirect manner.
7. v. To give a hint: wouldn't hint at the true purpose of the meeting. See Synonyms at suggest.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To lay hold of; seize; snatch: a dialectal variant of hent.
2. To suggest in an indirect manner; indicate by allusion or implication; give a hint of.
3. Synonyms 2. Hint, Intimate, Suggest, Insinuate. To hint is to convey an idea in the lightest possible manner, and especially by implication; to let one's thought be known in an indirect, hesitating, or partial manner. To intimate is to convey one's meaning more plainly than by a hint, but still not directly or explicitly. Suggest has a somewhat wide range, often meaning essentially the same as propose or remind (one) of, and ranging down to the meaning of hint: as, to suggest a plan; to suggest more than one says. Insinuate is now generally used in a bad sense; when used in a good sense, it implies pains taken and delicacy of skill. Hints and insinuations are always covert, intimations often, suggestions rarely. An innuendo is a peculiarly dark, crafty, or mean insinuation.
4. To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion.
5. Synonyms Allude (to), Refer (to), etc. See advert, v. i.
6. n. An act of exertion; a snatch: as, in a hint, in a moment.
7. n. An opportunity; a fit time.
8. n. A suggestion made indirectly; a covert suggestion or implication; an indirect indication, conveyed by speech, gesture, action, or circumstance, whether intentional or unintentional.
9. n. Synonyms See hint, v. t.
10. Behind.

Wiktionary

1. n. A clue.
2. n. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
3. n. A small, barely detectable amount of.
4. n. Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.
5. n. obsolete An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
6. v. To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
7. v. To develop and add hints to a font.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
2. v. To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.
3. n. A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a slight indication
2. n. a slight but appreciable amount
3. n. a just detectable amount
4. n. an indication of potential opportunity
5. v. drop a hint; intimate by a hint
6. n. an indirect suggestion