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Home Dictionary Name: hillMoot hill
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...
Moot-hills
Moot-hills, hills of meeting, on which our British ancestors held their great courts....
Mute hill
See Moot hill...
Palatine Hill
One of the seven hills of Rome situated southeast of the Capitoline and north northeast of the Aventine It borders on the Roman Forum is the traditional seat of the city founded by Romulus was the seat of private and later of imperial residences and contains many antiquities...
Foothill
A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains...
Interval
A tract of low ground between hills or along the banks of a stream usually alluvial land enriched by the overflowings of the river or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills Cf Bottom n 7...
Knoll
A little round hill a mound a small elevation of earth the top or crown of a hill...
VerbarMorro
A round hill or point of land hence Morro castle a castle on a hill...
myna
Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres Sturnopastor Sturnia Gracula and allied genera In habits they resemble the European starlings and like them are often caged and taught to talk See Hill myna under Hill and Mino bird...
Quirinal
Of pertaining to or designating the hill Collis Quirinalis now Monte Quirinale one of the seven hills of Rome or a modern royal place situated upon it Also used substantively...
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