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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Soleship :: Soleship (n.) The state of being sole, or alone; soleness..
Nehushtan :: Nehushtan (n.) A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.
Forward :: Forward (a.) Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet..
Impaction :: Impaction (n.) The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip..
Cut :: Cut (n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
Whipstitch :: Whipstitch (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..
Lee :: Lee (n.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a..
Switch :: Switch (v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
Embargo :: Embargo (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Ceremonial :: Ceremonial (n.) A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form..
Oblationer :: Oblationer (n.) One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..
Transship :: Transship (v. t.) To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another.
Biscuit :: Biscuit (n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit..
Ship :: Ship (v. t.) To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea..
Hippophile :: Hippophile (n.) One who loves horses.
Cabbiri :: Cabbiri (n. pl.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals..
Orgies :: Orgies (n. pl.) A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry..
Disworkmanship :: Disworkmanship (n.) Bad workmanship.
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