Vocabulary : Hip-roofed to Hire purchase

Hip-roofed : Having a hip roof.
Hipshot : Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other.
Hir : See Here, pron.
Hircic : Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin.
Hircin : Hircic acid. See Hircic.
Hircine : Alt. of Hircinous
Hircinous : Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat or the goats. ;; Of a strong goatish smell.
Hire : See Here, pron. ;; The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay. ;; A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward. ;; To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money. ;; To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate. ;; To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.
Hire and purchase agreement : A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract. In the United States such a contract is generally treated as a conditional sale, and the term hire purchase is also sometimes applied to a contract in which the hirer is not free to avoid future liability by surrender of the goods. In England, however, if the hirer does not have this right the contract is a sale.
Hire purchase : Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement
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