Rising ground; a ridge or bank. Obsolete exc. dialect.

A piece of ground with an upward slope; a hill. Chiefly in singular.

A mound (natural or man-made), eminence, or hill, esp. as the location of a camp, city, castle, fort, or other building; an embankment.

? A hillside, rising ground, slope, brae. (Perhaps because these were the localities naturally left in permanent pasture; but the sense is…

= mote, n.2 1.

A rising ground, hill, or eminence.

A high or lofty rising ground; an eminence. height of land, a watershed or ridge of high land dividing two river basins (North American).

The upward slope of a hill; an area of rising ground; a hill, a mound. Also in †rising up.

Something that is raised above its surroundings; a raised place. Also with up. Obsolete.

A rising ground; a ridge; a ledge, esp. one on the side of a chalk down; an unploughed strip serving as a boundary between fields.

An artificial mound or heap of earth, stones, etc.; (spec.) a raised piece of ground, or walk, in a garden (now historical).

concrete. A swollen, distended, or protuberant part of something; a protuberance, prominence; †a swell of ground.

A rise or elevation in the ground. Also in figurative context. (Cf. up and down, adv. 1a.)

The top, summit, or highest point of something, esp. a hill or structure; the crown of an arch. †Also, a high piece of land, an eminence (obsolete).

An elevation; a rise (in space). Obsolete. rare.

That which rises above its surroundings; a summit or peak; spec. in Typography = ascender, n.

An elevation on the earth's surface; a rising ground, hill. Also an elevated object. Obsolete.

A rising ground, an eminence. Obsolete.

An elevation on the earth's surface; a rising ground, hill. Also figurative.

A piece of land rising gradually and evenly above the general level; a hill, eminence, or upland with a smooth rounded outline and broad in…

concrete. A rising or swelling (on the skin or surface of the ground); a rising ground, an eminence.

A breast-like swelling of the ground.

An ascent or rising ground. rare.

A rising ground.

In Italy, an upward slope or incline, a stretch of rising ground.

A land form likened to the shell of a turtle.

A gentle, extensive elevation of part of the earth's surface.

An upward slope; rising ground.

Geology. A large mound of the shape of the back of a whale. More widely, any land form or land mass likened to the back of a whale; spec. (a) = roch…