Index of English words, starting with "hi"

(1) - Hitch (n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.
(2) - Hitch (n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
(3) - Hitch (n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
(4) - Hitch (n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
(5) - Hitch (n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
(6) - Hitch (n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
(7) - Hitch (v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
(8) - Hitch (v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
(9) - Hitch (v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
(10) - Hitch (v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
(11) - Hitch (v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

(1) - Hither (a.) Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
(2) - Hither (a.) Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.
(3) - Hither (adv.) To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
(4) - Hither (adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.