(hil) noun
1. A conspicuous natural elevation rising above the earth's surface and smaller than a mountain.
2. A heap or pile: a mole-hill.
3. A small mound of earth placed over or around certain plants and tubers.
4. The plants and tubers so surrounded.
—the Hill Capitol Hill.
—v.t.
1. To surround or cover with hills, as potatoes.
2. To form a hill or heap of.
—adjective Living in, or coming from, a hilly country: hill folk, hill songs; also, having many hills: hill country. [OE hyll]

(hil), Ambrose Powell,
1825–65, American Confederate general.
—Archibald Vivian,
born 1886, English physiologist.
—James Jerome,
1838–1916, U. S. railroad promoter; financier.