hide 
2. An animal's skin stripped from its body and 
used as a material for leather or in other ways : 
as, a raw hide; a dressed hide ; in the leather 
trade, specifically, the skin of a large animal, 
as an ox or a horse, as distinguished from kips, 
which are the skins of small or yearling cattle, 
and skins, which are those of smaller animals, 
as calves, sheep, goats, seals, etc. 
Of the hidi'S of beasts, being tanned, they vse to shape 
for themselues light, but impenetrable armour. 
Hakluyl s Vinjages, I. 21. 
Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for shame, 
And hang a calf s-skin on those recreant limbs. 
Shitk., K. John, iii. 1. 
3. The human skin : now in a derogatory sense. 
A vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide ! 
Shall., T. of the S., ii. 1. 
He found thee savage, and he left thee tame, 
Taught thee to clothe thy pink'd and painted hide. 
Cowper, Expostulation, 1. 481. 
Bullocks' hides. See bullocki. Flint hides, sun-dried 
hides. Green hide, a raw untanned hide with the hair 
still on. Hide-working machine. Same as hide-mill. 
Raw hide. Same as green hide. See rawhide. Wild 
hides, hides from wild cattle. 
For so-called wild hides, coming particularly from South 
America, Hamburg is the chief market in Germany. 
U. S. Cuia. Rrp., No. LIX. (1885), p. 394. 
= Syn. Pelt, etc. See skin, n. 
hide' 2 (hid), v. t. ; pret. and pp. hided, ppr. hid- 
ing. [< ME. liydcn, cover as with a hide; = 
Icel. hiidha, nog; cf. G. freq. hauteln, skin; from 
the noun hide 2 , skin. The E. verb in def. 2 com- 
bines the notion of beating or 'tanning' one's 
'hide' with that of whipping with a rawhide 
or cowhide.] If. To cover with or as with 
hide. 
He has a kyrtille one, kepide forhyme selvene, . . . 
That ea hydede alle with hare hally [wholly] al overe. 
Mvrte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), L 1001. 
2. To beat; flog; thrash. [Colloq.] 
hide 3 (hid), n. [Only as a historical term ; ME. 
hide, < ML. hida, < AS. hid, twice uncontr. higed, 
Jiigid, a certain portion of laud ; prob. (like the 
equiv. hiwisc, a hide of land, prop, a family, a 
household) < hiioan, ONorth. liiyait, pi., mem- 
bers of a household, a family: see heiee, hind 2 . 
The orig. meaning would then be ' as much land 
as will support one family,' the actual number 
of acres being appar. different at different times 
and places.] In old Eng. law, a holding of land, 
the allotment of one tenant ; a portion of land 
considered to be sufficient for the support of 
one family, but varying in extent in every dis- 
trict according to local custom and the quality 
of the soil, hence variously estimated at 60, 80, 
and 100 acres, or more. It might also include house, 
wood, meadow, and pasture necessary tor the mainte- 
nance of the plowman and oxen. See villeinage. 
The whole country was divided into military districts, 
each five hile* sending an armed man at the king's sum- 
mons, and providing him with victuals and pay. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. ISO. 
He fKing Alfred] made a law that all Freemen of the 
Kingdom possessing two Hides of Land should bring up 
their Sons in Learning. Baker, Chronicles, p. 9. 
A Hide is so much land as one Plow can sufficiently till. 
Milton, Hist. Eng., vi. 
hide-and-seek (hid'and-sek'), n. Achild'sgame 
in which one or more hide, and the others try to 
find them. Formerly called hide-and-find. 
Egad, you seem all to have been diverting yourselves 
here at hide and seek, and I don't see who is out of the se- 
cret. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 3. 
hidebind (hid'blnd), v. t. [< hide 2 + bindl, with 
ref . to the earlier adj. hidebound.] To constrict ; 
confine. [Rare.] 
A dire monotony of bookish idiom has encrusted and 
stiffened all native freedom of expression, like some scaly 
leprosy or elephantiasis barking and hide-binding the flue 
natural pulses of the elastic flesh. De Quince;/, Style, i. 
hide-blown (hid'blon), a. Bloated; swelled. 
[Rare.] 
Ye slothful, hide-blown, gormandizing niggards! 
Sir H. Taylor, Ph. van Artevelde, I., i. S. 
hidebound (hid'bound), a. [< hide 2 + bound*.] 
1. Bound tightly by the hide, as an animal, 
or by the bark, as a tree: said of a horse, etc., 
when, from emaciation or other cause, the 
hide on its back or ribs cannot be loosened or 
raised in folds with the fingers ; of a tree or a 
root, when the bark is so close or unyielding as 
to impede its growth. 
Their horses, no other than lame jades and poore hide- 
bound hildings. Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 415. 
He hath wealth, . . . but starves his poor hide-bound 
carcass. Sta/ord, Niobe, i. 91. 
Stunted hide-bound trees, that, just have got 
Sufficient sap at once to bear and rot. 
Pope, Macer ; a Character. 
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hiemate 
Hence 2. Obstinately set in opinion or pur- 
pose ; naiTow-minded ; bigoted; stubborn; un- 
yielding: as, a hidebound partizan. 
The hidebound humour which he calls his judgement. 
Milton, Areopagitica, p. 32. 
The minds of men, long hide-bound in scholastic logic 
and theology, sprang forward . . . into a fresh world of 
light. Shairp, Culture and Religion, p. 47. 
3f. Shut tightly; closed fast; 
fisted; stingy. 
Hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother? 
Quarles, Judgement and Mercy, The Swearer. 
hidegildt, . [Repr. AS. hidgild, a tax paid on a Keade - Never " to I * te to Mend > < 
every hide of land, < hid, a hide of land, + gild, hiding-place (hi'ding-plas), n % A place of con- 
payment.] In Anglo-Saxon law, a tax paid on ">i-">"* 
to smooth it out and remove wrinkles ; a hide- 
stretching frame. 
hiding 1 (hi'ding), . [< ME. hydiiige, hudiiif/r, 
ln'ilinijc, verbal u. of hyden, hiden, liidel.] The 
act of concealing; concealment: as, to remain 
in hiding. 
There was the hidiny of his power. Hab. iii. 4. 
hence, close- hiding 2 (hi'ding), n. [Verbal n. of hide*, v.] 
A flogging or thrashing. [Colloq.] 
I wasn't going to shed the beggar's blood ; I was only 
going to give him a hiding for his impudence. 
cealment. 
every hide of land, 
hidel'ing (hld'ling), a. [< hide* + -ling 2 .] Given 
to hiding; secretive; furtive; clandestine. 
[Rare.] 
So hireling are its [the nightingale's] habits that one 
seldom obtains a glimpse of it. 
A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind. 
Isa. xxxii. _'. 
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place . . . 
Sailing on obscure wings. 
Coleridge, Fears in Solitude. 
hidioust, a. See hideous. 
JUac&Mvray, Brit. Birds (1839), II. 334. hidlingS, hidlins (hid'lingz, -linz), adv. and a. 
hide-mill (hid'mil), n. A machine for soften- [Sc., also written hiddlins; var. of hideling, 
ing dried hides, as a preliminary process in 
tanning. It is made in various forms, consisting some- 
times of a series of rollers, sometimes of a drum or tum- 
bling. box, sometimes of a pounding or kneading appa- 
ratus. The hides are first soaked, and are kept moist 
during treatment in the mill. Also called hide-working 
machine. 
It is usual to soften dry hides and skins in the hi*If- 
mill after they come from the soaks. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 280. 
q. v.] I. adv. In a clandestine manner; se- 
cretly; furtively. 
An' she's to come to you here, hidlings, as it war. 
J. Baillie. 
II. a. Clandestine; furtive; hideling. 
He ne'er kept up a hidlim plack 
To spend ahint a comrade's back. 
Tannahitl, Poems, p. 115. 
thing of hideosity (I invent a vile word s' ee sireat ~\ \nnathnl npmniifiHnn PBTuwinllv 
for a fact that is viler)- flats, warranted fireproof, have ' al 'i ., perspiration, especially 
been run up adjacently within the last few weeks. when profuse or artificially produced ; a sweat- 
If. and Q., 7th ser., V. 344. ing condition, or the state of being in a sweat. 
That place of monstrosities and hideoritiet. Also idrosis. 
llluitr. London Hewn, XXIX. 359. hidrotic (hi-drot'ik), a. and n. [< Gr. idpuTinAf, 
hideous (hid'e-us), a. [Early mod. E. also hidi- sudorific ; of persons, apt to p_erspire ; < idpovy, 
ous; < ME. hi'dyoits, usually hidous, < OF. hidos, 
hidus, hideus, F. hideujc, earliest OF. hisdos, hid- 
eous, pejhaps < ML. "hispidosus, an intensive 
form of L. hispidus, rough, shaggy, bristly. Cf. 
sweat, perspire: see hidrosis'.] I. a. Inmed., 
causing sweat ; sudorific. 
II. n. A medicine that promotes perspira- 
tion; a sudorific. 
the equiv. horrid, < L. liorridus" rough, shaggy, hidrotopathic (hi-dro-to-path'ik), a. [< Gr. 
bristly. In this view, OF. hide, hisde, fear, dread. 5*f (MpuriKof), sudorific, + 0of, suffering, 
terror, is from the adj.] Frightful in appear- affection.] Pertaining to or affected with mor- 
ance, sound, or character; very dreadful ; hor- Did conditions of perspiration, 
rible; detestable ; revolting: as, a hideous mon- ?,S?>1 *! P ret - and PP- '"<"*> PP r - Meing. 
ster; a hideous uproar; hideous debauchery. L< MK Inen, hyen, heigen,higen,< AS. higian, has- 
ten, strive, = MD. hygJien,J). hijgen, intr., pant, 
long (for), = Dan. hige, intr., hanker (after), 
crave, covet. Cf . Gr. KICIV, go (whence the causal 
Ktvctv, tr., move), = L. tiere, tire, tr., move, stir, 
summon, pp. titus as adj., quick, swift: see 
cite 1 .] I. intrans. To hasten ; go in haste: often 
with a reciprocal pronoun. 
Hye the faste, with myghte and mayne ; 
I sail the brynge till Eldone tree. 
Thomas oj Ersseldoune (Child s Ballads, I. 107). 
It was some grief vnto me to see him hie so hastlie to 
God. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 90. 
Wee ought to kie us from evill like a torrent. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden. 
II. trans. To incite to action or haste ; insti- 
gate; urge: with on. 
The cowboy, . . . fearing it [the buffalo] might escape, 
hied on the hound, which dashed in. 
T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 273. 
[< ME. hie, hye, hyge, haste; from the 
Haste; speed. 
hiet, n. 
verb.] 
This world (he said) in lesse than in an houre 
Shal al be dreint, so hidous is the shoure : 
Thus shal inankinde drenche, and lese her lit. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 3520. 
Grete and hidymise was the bateile, and the slaughter 
grete on bothe side*. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 594. 
Methought, a legion of foul fiends 
Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears 
Such hideoun cries that, with the very noise, 
I trembling wak'd. Shalt., Rich. III., i. 4. 
=Syn. Grim, Grisly, etc. (see ghastly) ; horrid, terrible, 
appalling. 
hideously (hid'e-us-li), adv. [< ME. hidyously, 
usually hidously; as hideous -r -ly 2 .] In a hid- 
eous manner or degree. 
The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro 
So hidously that with the leste strook 
It semede as it wolde felle an ook. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 843. 
And the tempest arose so idyouly that we were fayne 
to recoyle bak ayen to seke vs some sure herborough. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 61. 
Yet still he bet and bonnst uppon the dore, 
And thundred strokes thereon so hideouslie 
That all the peece he shaked from the (lore. 
Spenser, Jf. Q., V. U. 21. 
hidepusness (hid'e-us-nes), 71. The state or 
quality of being hideous. 
The faithful copy of my hideousnes*. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche. 
They generally differ from the common sort of men, 
both in stature, bignesse, and strength of body, as also in 
the hideouynesse of their voice. 
Sir F. Drake, World Encompassed, p. 2& 
hider 1 (hl'der), n. [< ME. hider; < hidel + -er*.] 
One who hides or conceals. 
If the hider of the gold ne had hid the gold in that place, 
the gold ne had not been found. Chaucer, Boethius, v. 
hider 2 t (hl'der), adv. A Middle English form of 
hither. 
hide-rope (hid'rop), n. [< hide 2 + rope.] A 
tough and durable rope made of twisted strips 
of cowhide, used for wheel-ropes, traces, etc. 
hide-scraper (hid'skra"per), n. In leather- hiemate (hi 'e -mat), v. i.; pret. and pp. hie- 
manuf., a machine for scraping the flesh side mated, ppr. hiemating. [< L. hiematus, pp. of 
of hides. hiemare, pass the winter, < hiems, hiemps, win- 
hide-stretcher (hld'strecb/er). n. In leather- ter: see hiems.] To hibernate; pass the win- 
manuf., a frame on which a hide is stretched ter. B. S. Barton, 1799, 
Up she roos, and by the bond in hye 
She took him faste. Chaucer, Troilus, it 88. 
hieland, hielander, etc. See highland, etc. 
hieldtj v. A variant of heeld. Chaucer. 
hielmite (hyel'mit), n. [Named after P. J. 
Hjelm (1746-1813), a Swedish chemist.] A 
black massive mineral found in pegmatite near 
Falun, Sweden. It contains tantalum, tin, 
yttrium, uranium, iron, and other elements in 
small amount. 
hiemal (hl'e-mal), . [Also written, improp.. 
hyemal; = F. hiemal = Sp. Pg. hiemal, < L. hie- 
malis, of winter, wintry, < hiems, hiemps, win- 
ter: see hiems.] Belonging to winter; occur- 
ring in winter: as, the hiemal solstice. 
Beside vernal, estival, autumnal [garlands] made of 
flowers, the ancients had also hyemal garlands. 
Sir T. Browne, Miscellanies, p. 92. 
