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Pronunciation : Hip
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h?fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h?ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. kumpis ham.]
Definition : 1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

3. (Engin)

Defn: In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. Waddell. Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone. -- Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle. -- Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone. -- Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. -- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. -- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof. -- Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3. -- Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof. -- To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak. -- To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Hip
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.

t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Hip
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. hepe, AS. he?pe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.] (Bot.)
Definition : Defn: The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.] Hip tree (Bot.), the dog- rose.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Hip
Part of Speech : interj.
Definition : Defn: Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Hip, or Hipps (
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: See Hyp, n. [Colloq.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913