Your browser does not seem to support JavaScript. As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you have been placed in read-only mode.
Please download a browser that supports JavaScript, or enable it if it's disabled (i.e. NoScript).
Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law inEngland, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on thethirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from thefestival of St. Hilary, January 13th.
Share your knowledge with the community
Browse our collection of 300,000+ community-written definitions
