Definition of hip

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Hip (n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord..

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Wallop :: Wallop (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
Stafette :: Stadtholdership (n.) The office or position of a stadtholder.
Mastership :: Mastership (n.) Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority.
Lastage :: Lastage (n.) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship..
Chipper :: Chipper (a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative.
Sagging :: Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging..
Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment..
Shaker :: Shaker (n.) One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship..
Oblationer :: Oblationer (n.) One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence.
Foredeck :: Foredeck (n.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship..
Oppression :: Oppression (n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
Son-in-law :: Son-in-law (n.) The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents.
Greet :: Greet (v. t.) To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token..
Antiqueness :: Antiqueness (n.) The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship.
Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest..
Strepsipterous :: Strepsiptera (n. pl.) A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter..
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes..
Partnership :: Partnership (n.) A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure..
Transship :: Transship (v. t.) To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another.
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