a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 141 Wherein of Antrees vast, and Deserts idle..It was my hent [1623 hint] to speake. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 3 Our hint of woe Is common. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 172 Hearing vs praise our Loues of Italy..This Posthumus..tooke his hint, And..he began His Mistris picture.

1623 W. Sclater Quæstion of Tythes 199 Gaue euer man hent to his Argument from the matter of Abrahams Tithing?

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 14. ⁋15 To watch the hints which conversation offers for the display of their particular attainments.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 102 (Jam.) For fear I lost the hint.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 138 It is my hint to speak.

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 57 What colour and tincture you give them in that hint, you shall know them by it for many years after.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 98 (Jam.) And in a hint he claspt her hard and fast.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. iii. 165 Vpon this hint [1622 heate] I spake.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. ii, in Wks. I. 568 The least hint giuen him of his wife now, will make him raile desperately. View more context for this quotation

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 82 I will give you some little hints of her shape, and manner of growth.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxxi. 352 Here are not general Words, ambiguous Expressions, or remote Hints, but a Thread of a full and clear Discourse.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 31. ¶1 He had taken the Hint of it from several Performances which he had seen upon our Stage.

1759 S. Johnson Idler 3 Mar. 65 She loves a sharp girl that can take a hint.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 150 The king eagerly caught at the hint.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xiv. 23 I perceived no touch of change, No hint of death in all his frame. View more context for this quotation

1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. 221 (heading) General hints to strangers who travel to France.

1799 S. T. Coleridge & R. Southey Devil's Thoughts in Morning Post & Gazetteer 6 Sept. The Devil was pleas'd, for it gave him a hint, For improving the prisons of Hell.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lvi. 69 The Monthly is more miscellaneous in its contents... All sorts of heretical opinions are started here, agricultural hints thrown out, and queries propounded of all kinds.

1841 S. Ellis (title) Family secrets; or, Hints to those who would make home happy.

1872 Young Englishwoman Nov. 598 Household hints for young housewives.

1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. x. 181 Audrey gave them household hints, about how to keep the kettle from furring, and the stove and the milk jar from smelling.

1972 Guardian 29 Mar. 11/5 Angela Kay's Household Hints..has a pretty good selection of useful answers to some eight hundred possible problems.

1648 Hunting of Fox 13 It will not be amisse to hint both unto you.

1655 J. Jane in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1897) III. 228 The reason I formerly hinted to you.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 209 Which..may hint us the reason of that so much admired appearance..in mother of Pearl-shells.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 64 The Doctor hinted it to me.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. 10 Nothing is yet said or hinted concerning the place.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 387 Oates..had hinted a suspicion that the Jesuits were at the bottom of the scheme.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 157 To hint that it is not safe to conclude any thing to be positively this or that.

1743 S. Johnson Let. (1992) I. 35 You hinted to me that you had many calls for Money.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 174 It was hinted to the elderly Frenchman that their nocturnal departure boded no good.

1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iii. 107 ‘I'm sure he is very rich, Fred,’ hinted Scrooge's niece.

1891 C. Graves Field of Tares 41 ‘I have been a stranger to the neighborhood,’ returned the other, ‘for years.’ ‘Many years?’ hinted Mr. Brinnilow.

1697 J. Addison Ess. Georgics in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶4^v Agriculture ought to be some way hinted at throughout the whole Poem.

1735 Ld. Hardwicke in W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (1817) II. 986 I never heard such a justification in an action for a libel even hinted at.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 21 Oct. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) vi. 492 The spectator's imagination completes what the artist merely hints at.

1865 Punch 21 Jan. 32 If I wos allowed to 'int, Ladies, I shud say, Torse Hup!

1891 T. Hardy Group of Noble Dames 77 Her husband's tutor was found to hint very strongly against such a step.

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby III. vii. 178 The night above was dark, but ‘star~dials hinted of morn’.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A3 We were hinted by the occasion, not catched the opportunity to write of old things, or intrude upon the Antiquary.