Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
hill .
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Examples
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Pam, felly, bod eich plaid wedi treulio'r 12 mlynedd ddiwethaf yn hudo'r rhacsyn hyll o bapur i'ch cefnogi.
Archive 2009-09-01 Dyfrig 2009
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Pam, felly, bod eich plaid wedi treulio'r 12 mlynedd ddiwethaf yn hudo'r rhacsyn hyll o bapur i'ch cefnogi.
Y Blaid Lafur a'r Sun Dyfrig 2009
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The first Illyrian king Hyllus was identified with alb. hyll 'star, sun', gr.
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Their chiefe citie is called Saba, and stondeth vpon a hyll.
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Striuelyng, and dyd eate fleshe in Lent at the said brydal, and so they were altogether burnt vpon the castle hyll of Edenbrough, where they that were first bounde to the stake, godly and marueylously dyd comfort them that came behynde.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Vppon the mouth of this last described vessell did mount vppe a pretyous hyll maruellously congest, and framed of innumerable rounde pretious rocke stones closing one with another vnequally, as if nature had ioyned them growing, making a rounde composed hill, beautifully glistering of dyuerse sortes and colours in a proportionate bignes.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Tripoli, in Syria, on an high hyll, called in those parts Gasian, so as there you may learn at that part of Tripoli the value of the pound, the goodnesse of it, and the places of the vent.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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But it is said that from that hyll there passeth yerely of that commodity fifteen moiles laden, and that those regions notwithstanding lacke sufficiency of that commodity.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Their chiefe citie is called Saba, and stondeth vpon a hyll.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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But nothing such thilke shephearde was, whom Ida hyll dyd beare,
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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