hippeastrum

[Gr. hippeus =a horseman, and astron a star.] Bot .: Knight's Star-lily; a genus of Amaryllidacese, tribe Amaryllese. The flowers are showy. Native of South America and the West Indies. hipped (1), a. [HIP (1), 8.] 1. Ord . Lang.: Having the hip dislocated or sprained. 2. Arch.: Furnished with a hip; as, a hipped roof. hipped-roof, s. Arch .: A hip-roof (q. v.). hipped (2), α. [HIP (3), s.] Rendered mel an choly or dismal; melancholy. "From the hipped discourses gather, That politics go by the weather." Green: The Spleen. Zool.: The Hippelaphus, an animal described by Aristotle, and containing some of the character is- tics of the stag and of the horse. It is sometimes said to have been Rusa hippelaphus , but Cuvier ultimately considered it to have been Rusa aristo- tel is , a species from the north of India. hip-pi-a, s . [Gr. hippios =of a horse; so named because horses are fond of the plant.] Bot .: The typical genus of the sub-tribe Hippiese (q. v.). hip-pi-ans, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. hippa (q. v.); i connective, and Eng., ., pl. suff. -ans.] (q. v.). boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; before a vowel, as hippelaphus (q. v.).