hippings

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only)Alternative form of hippins.

   “Isobel Williamson cited, compeared and declared that she knew nothing who were the parents to the forsaid child or who laid it down, that she was the first came to the child, that she and others thought could not be above fourteen days’ old, that the child had a day and night busken with it, some hippings, but no writ, that the men in Oxnam water were present at her taking up the child, who also alarmed the rest of the neighbourhood.”

   “This smallest and wershest of his Majesty’s subjects the worthy preacher dandles and fondles and dry-nurses and talks about in a way that is piteous to behold. He speculates on the progressive development of his senses, on the state of his bowels, on his hours of rest, his pap-spoons and his hippings.”

   “Then, three nights later, he came home late, to find her, as he had found her before, sitting at the hearth, the hearth swept and the fire made up, with the child in its hippings and swaddlings of rags on her lap.”