Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MOLE'-HILL
MOLE'-HILL, n. [W. malur.]
A little hillock or elevation of earth thrown-up by moles working underground; hence proverbially, a very small hill, or other small thing, compared with a larger. Having leaped over such mountain; lie down before a mole hill. – South.
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