As he spoke, he laid his hand on his hip pocket where reposed his revolver.
In the former instance and the most common is where the patella, or the little stifle bone that glides in the groove composed of the lower hip and upper thigh bones, has become partially dislocated or removed from its natural position.
Puncture about three inches downward and forward from the point of the hip bone with a clean sharp knife, or any instrument that is clean and sharp.
Remember you can have a Sweeney of the hip as well as the shoulder, and keep in mind the above mentioned causes.
When the animal is bloated severely, puncture with a knife about four or five inches from the point of the hip downward and forward.
HIP-KNOB, in architecture, the finial on the hip of a roof, between the barge-boards of a gable.
Among hospitals are the Italian, the Homoeopathic, the National for the paralysed and epileptic, the Alexandra for children with hip disease, and the Hospital for sick children.
Those at the knee, for example, contribute more to the length of limb than do those at the hip or ankle, and they are also the last to unite.
This is well seen in adults who have suffered from severe disease of the hip in childhood--the entire limb, including the foot, being shorter and smaller than the corresponding parts of the opposite side.
If the joint is kept rigid for long periods, secondary contracture may occur--in the knee with flexion, in the hip with flexion and adduction.
Extension with weight and pulley is of value in securing rest, especially in disease of the hip or knee; it eliminates muscular spasm, relieves pain and startings at night, and prevents abnormal attitudes of the limb.
The hip and spine are most often affected in childhood and youth, the shoulder and wrist in adults; the knee, ankle, and elbow show little age preference.
It is best illustrated in arthritis deformans of thehip in which new bone formed round the rim of the acetabulum mechanically arrests the excursions of the head of the femur.
They are found also in the diverticula of the synovial membrane, in the shoulder in the downward prolongation along the tendon of the biceps, in the hip in the bursal extension beneath the psoas.
It is also necessary to exclude such conditions as disease in thehip or sacro-iliac joint, especially tuberculous disease and arthritis deformans, before arriving at a diagnosis of sciatica.
Involuntarily his hand leaped to his holster on his hip and the ready gun came flashing half way up.
He furtively felt of his hip pocket, then quietly arose and went forward with extended hand.
Once, as they rounded an abrupt turn, the heavy revolver at his hip was jammed painfully against her gauntlet; she merely shut her teeth and smiled.
He stood ready for a quick move, if necessary, while his right hand rested on the butt of the revolver in his hip pocket.
Anyway it would have been of little use, for instantly a score of revolvers leaped from as many hip pockets, and covered him in the twinkling of an eye.
Rather must you make the action proceed by degrees and through the different joints; that is, those of the foot, the knee and the hip and the neck.
A man's width across the hips is equal to the distance from the top of the hip to the bottom of the buttock, when a man stands equally balanced on both feet; and there is the same distance from the top of the hip to the armpit.
The opening of the ear, the joint of the shoulder, that of the hip and the ancle are in perpendicular lines; a n is equal to m o.
I thought he had poor old dad on the hip when he accused the employer of holding up the war, too.
Have they asked him to gird up his loins and hire halls and smite the upstart hip and thigh?
We fell upon the enemy even as they were emerging from their stronghold, the schoolhouse, and smote them hip and thigh, with the sheriff of Anne Arundel County a laughing spectator.
Slowly he reached an angular arm back under his right shoulder blade and fished about there until he had extracted from a hip pocket a long, black rectangle of navy chewing tobacco that was like a shingle newly dipped in creosote.
I feel like I've been straddlin' a hip roof durin' an earthquake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
