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- English Word Hindi Definition The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.
- English Word Hindleys screw Definition A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form.
- English Word Hindmost Definition Furthest in or toward the rear; last.
- English Word Hindoo Definition Alt. of Hindu
- English Word Hindooism Definition Alt. of Hinduism
- English Word Hindoos Definition of Hindu
- English Word Hindoostanee Definition Alt. of Hindustani
- English Word Hindrance Definition The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
- English Word Hindrance Definition That which hinders; an impediment.
- English Word Hindu Definition A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.
- English Word Hindu Definition Same as Hindoo.
- English Word Hinduism Definition The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.
- English Word Hindus Definition of Hindu
- English Word Hindustani Definition Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language.
- English Word Hindustani Definition The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.
- English Word Hine Definition A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind.
- English Word Hinge Definition The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
- English Word Hinge Definition That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
- English Word Hinge Definition One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- English Word Hinge Definition To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.