Definition of Hillocky

1. hillock [adj] - See also: hillock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hillocky

hilliness
hillinesses
hilling
hillite
hilllike
hillman
hillmen
hillo
hilloa
hilloaed
hilloaing
hilloas
hillock
hillocked
hillocks
hillocky (current term)
hilloed
hilloes
hilloing
hillos
hills
hillside
hillsides
hillslope
hillslopes
hillsman
hillsmen
hillspeople
hilltop
hilltops

Literary usage of Hillocky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Investigations Into Some Morbid Cardiac Conditions: Including the by William Russell (1886)
"The hillocky swellings are, as a rule, small. ... If from this stage the morbid process advances, the hillocky swellings become more prominent; ..."

2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1895)
"Petrous portions of temporal bones thick, stunted, hillocky, running forwards on the inner side of the Gasserian fossa?, with prominent semicircular canals. ..."

3. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches: A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1899)
"Keeping the dog in at heel, we walked ahead through a fine grass valley, till we arrived at a hillocky piece of ground of about fifty acres, covered with ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"Hike, v. to strike with the horn ; to doss; to hipe. [See pp. 47, 30 above.] hillocky, adj. full of anthills. Hog. ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"... part covered with hillocky bogs, overgrown by thn Tibetan reeds, stiff and hard as wire. The watershed between the two great Chinese rivers was 14500 ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"... of October a wide expanse of hillocky plain could be seen. This was Gobi. For about 100 miles of their journey ^across this desert thev were o much ..."

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