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▪ I. ˈhilling, vbl. n.1
Now dial.
[f. hill v.1 + -ing1.]
1. Covering, hiding, protection.
a1300E.E. Psalter lx[i]. 5 [4] Be for-hild in hilinge of þi wenges I mon. 1388Wyclif ibid., Keuered in the hilyng of thi wengis. c1440Promp. Parv. 240/1 Hyllynge, or happynge. 1580Lupton Sivqila 28 Caring for nothing, but for the hilling and filling of their owne backe and bellie.
2. concr. A covering; e.g. clothing, a bed-quilt, a roof, the cover of a book; cf. heling 2. (In ME. freq. in phr. food and hilling.)
c1325Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 170 Cele e tecte, hiling of hous. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 427 When we haue fode and hyllynge [I. 203 hilinge]. 1388― Prov. xxi. 27 That thou take awei hilyng [1382 coueryng] fro thi bed. c1440Promp. Parv. 229/2 Hatte, hed hillynge. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) v. vii. 204/1 Hylynge lyfelode, and helpe of frendes. 1520Lanc. Wills (1857) II. 9 My best bed hillinge of tapstre werke. 1601Holland Pliny I. 289 They [partridges] couer their egs with a soft carpet or hilling as it were of fine dust. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 55 The hillings from many seeds. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Hilling, the quilt of a bed, a bed rug.
3. Comb. hilling-stone, stone used for roofing.
1660Act 12 Chas. II, c. 4 Sched. ii, Stones vocat' Hilling stone the thowsand iijs. iiijd. 1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. 355 Copperas, Bread, Hilling-stones and Calve-skins. 1811Self Instructor 422 Slate and hilling stones.
▪ II. ˈhilling, vbl. n.2
[f. hill v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of forming hills or heaps; esp. the earthing-up of plants; cf. hill v.2 2.
1627–47[see hill v.2 1 b]. 1773Hist. Brit. Dom. N. Amer. ii. ii. 211 Horse-hoeings, as also hoeing and hilling by hand. 1796J. Adams Diary 12 July Wks. 1851 III. 416 Ploughing for hilling among the corn. 1814J. Taylor Arator 233 How often he had passed over the land..in fallowing, hilling, cutting off hills, planting, replantings. 1833B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 17 It is advisable not to plough deep, especially for the last hoeing or hilling. 1887Harper's Mag. Jan. 306/1 There is a broad hilling up so as to have a slope inward toward the plants as well as away from them. |
单词 hilliness 释义 hilliness|hlns|[f. hilly a. + -ness.]The quality or state of being hil......