hill-altarn.
An altar on a hill or height.
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hill-altar1539
1539 Bible (Great) 2 Kings xxiii. 5 Ministers of Baal..to burne incence in the hylaulters [1611 high places].
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xii. 189 Sacrificing on their hill altars.
1602 J. Rhodes in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 285 As he did [break] the hill-altars And groues of all idolaters.
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n.1539- to be no substitute for
- to be no way but one
- to be no worse than one's word
- to be nobody's business
- to be nobody's enemy but one's own
- to be none of a person's business
- to be not as green as one is cabbage-looking
- to be not as green as one is cabbagelooking
- to be not doing for one's health
- to be not doing something for one's health
- to be not nought to charge
- to be not to charge
- to be not to know
- to be nothing to
- to be nought
- to be nowhere
- to be nowt o'clock
- to be nuts on
- to be nuts upon
- to be obliged
- to be obumbred to
- to be occasionally on two in (also of several minds, etc)
- to be occasionally on two in twenty minds several minds, etc)
- to be occasionally on two minds several minds, etc)
- to be odd with