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Uphill :: Uphill (a.) Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road..

Den :: Den (n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers..

Butlerage :: Butlerage (n.) A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.

Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..

Bent :: Bent (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill..

Cutting :: Cutting (a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind..

Congeal :: Congeal (v. t.) To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill..

Mancus :: Mancus (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money..

Hero :: Hero (n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid..

Orchilla Weed :: Orchilla weed () The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil.

Moot-hill :: Moot-hill (n.) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill..

Chill :: Chill (n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly..

Valley :: Valley (n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively..

Algidity :: Algidity (n.) Chilliness; coldnes.

Rial :: Rial (n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth..

Dorsum :: Dorsum (n.) The ridge of a hill.

Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A high hill near the shore.

Zion :: Zion (n.) A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors..

Jumper :: "Jumper (n.) A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills..

Hill :: Hill (n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain..

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