| Hill 1. (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. 2. (n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t. 3. (n.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. 4. (v. t.) To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn. Thesaurus Entries acclivity, anthill, bank, bank up, barrow, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, cock, condyle, convex, decline, declivity, dowel, down, downgrade, downs, drift, drumlin, dune, ear, elevation, embankment, eminence, fell, flange, flap, foothill, foothills, gall, gnarl, grade, gradient, handle, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, height, highland, hillock, hummock, hump, hunch, incline, jog, joggle, knob, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mount, mountain, mow, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, pile, pile up, prominence, promontory, pyramid, rib, rick, ridge, ring, rise, sand dune, shock, shoulder, slope, snowdrift, spine, stack, stack up, stud, style, swell, tab, tor, tubercle, tubercule, upgrade, upland, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt |