Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hip"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hip \Hip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hipping}.]
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG.
huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf.
Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of
cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of
the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
2. (Arch.) 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) 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hepe, AS. he['o]pe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble
bush.] (Bot.)
The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose
({Rosa canina}). [Written also {hop}, {hep}.]
{Hip tree} (Bot.), the dog-rose.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hip \Hip\, interj.
Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hip \Hip\, or Hipps \Hipps\, n.
See {Hyp}, n. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hip
adj : (informal) informed about the latest trends [syn: {hep}, {hip
to(p)}]
n 1: either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
2: the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the
lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding
parts in other vertebrates [syn: {pelvis}, {pelvic girdle},
{pelvic arch}]
3: the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and
the acetabulum [syn: {hip joint}, {coxa}, {articulatio
coxae}]
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