Hint

,—insinuation,; gentle suggestion. Hints are often as significant and expressive as downright plain speaking, and produce the same effect. Sometimes indeed they fail. The combined powers have received pretty broad hints, how mad and desperate it is to attempt the conquest of France. “But in blood they are plunged so deep, that, without consulting justice or humanity, they hold it now as safe for themselves to advance, as to retire. They will take no hint. They have set their all upon a cast, and are resolved to stand the hazard of the die.”