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Hint   /hɪnt/   Listen
noun
Hint  n.  A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive. "Our hint of woe Is common." "The hint malevolent, the look oblique."
Synonyms: Suggestion; allusion. See Suggestion.



verb
Hint  v. t.  (past & past part. hinted; pres. part. hinting)  To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion. "Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike."
Synonyms: To suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply.



Hint  v. i.  To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something. "We whisper, and hint, and chuckle."
To hint at, to allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously.
Synonyms: To allude; refer; glance; touch.






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"Hint" Quotes from Famous Books



... widely. Gentile's love for historical research, for costume and for pageants, found no echo in the deeper idealism of Giovanni—indeed, his offer of the famous sketch-book, as an inducement to the latter to finish his last great work, seems to hint that it was an exercise out of his brother's line; but he knew that Giovanni was a great painter, and did not trust it, as we might have expected, to his assistants, Giovanni ...
— The Venetian School of Painting • Evelyn March Phillipps

... have served as a strong hint to the English of those times to keep up the strength of their navy, but it does not appear to have had any such effect; and even that wise monarch, Canute the Great, had only thirty-two ships afloat. We find, however, ...
— How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - Updated to 1900 • W.H.G. Kingston

... hint, and divided a couple of bottles of wine among the party, which assisted to put them in good spirits. They sat round the fire, yarns were told and songs were sung, but their heads soon began to nod, and they were glad to seek the shelter of the tent. As the island was ...
— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston

... requisites of the toilette. His maid brought me a cup of chocolate, and his cook came to ask if I had permission to eat flesh-meat. In such ways a prince welcomes a guest, and bids him stay, but such behaviour in a private person is equivalent to a hint to go. I expressed my gratitude, and only accepted a cup ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... not matured. If it should be well connected and take effect, I am fervent in my wishes that it may comport with the line of life you have marked out for yourself to favor your country with your counsels on such an important and single occasion. I suggest this merely as a hint ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing


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