adjective

1. Of or relating to the period of the Greek culture, history, or art after the death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.E.) to the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian (31 B.C.E.)
2. Of or relating to a Hellenist.

noun

1. Someone who is afraid of change to the point of total inaction. (From a book by Spencer Johnson, M.D., Who moved my cheese, about a character who was always against change.)

verb (hem, m, ing)

1. (intransitive) (in sewing) To make a hem.
2. (intransitive) (in speaking) To make a sound like hem (usually coupled with "haw" as in "hemmed and hawwed.")
3. (transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
4. (transitive): To surround something or someone in a confining way.

adjective ((compar) higher-pitched or more high-pitched, (superl) highest-pitched or most high-pitched)

1. Of a sound, having a comparatively high pitch.

noun

1. (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
2. The fruit of a rose.

adjective (hipper, hippest)

1. (slang) aware
2. (slang) trendy.

adjective

1. open-air, outdoor, exposed to the sky

• 1974: There was a dignity in their presence kin to summer"s first morning of taurine light in the pepper trees of Uruguay. " Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

noun (hypogea)

1. an underground room or cavern

• 1969: Contour: the unique parameters of Karen"s body " beckoning vents of mouth and vulva, the soft of the anus. " JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition