himpne 
himpnet, n. A Middle English form of hymn. 
Chaucer. 
himself (hini-self'),j)ro.; pi. thcmselres (thetn- 
selva'). [(, 6) < ME. himsi-lf, usually and 
orig. as two words, him self, him selve, etc., < 
AS. him selfum, dat. sing. masc. or neut.; (c) 
ME. him self, hiniselve, him selveu, < AS. him 
selfum, dat. pi., uom. sing, he self, gen. his 
selfes, etc. ; being the pron. with agreeing adj. 
self, as also in herself, themselves, myself (for 
meself), tlii/self '(for the'eself), etc.; the dative (ob- 
jective or dative of reference), being the most 
frequent, has become the exclusive form: see 
feel and self.] (a) An emphatic or reflexive 
form of the third personal pronoun masculine, 
either nominative or objective. In the nomina- 
tive it is always used, for emphasis, in apposition to he or 
to a noun, usually expressed, but sometimes only under- 
stood ; in the objective it is used alone or in apposition 
to hint or to a noun : as, he himself did it ; it was himself 
(he himself) that did it ; he did it for himself, or for the 
man himself; let him do it himself; he came to himself. 
Then Ector, hym owne selfe ordant belyue, 
The last batell to lede of his lege pepull. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6237. 
And for himself himself he must forsake ; 
Then where is truth, if there be no self -trust? 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 157. 
He clash'd 
His iron palms together with a cry ; 
Himself would tilt it out among the lads. 
Tennyson, Princess, v. 
(6t) The neuter similarly used. Now itself, (cf) 
The dative (objective) plural, similarly used. 
Now themselves. 
Enuyos hert hym-selue fretys, 
And of gode werky[sj hyrn-selue lettys. 
Bootee of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.X i. 47. 
himselvet, himselventj pron. Obsolete vari- 
ants of himself. Chaucer. 
Himyaric (him-yar'ik), a. [< Himyar (see def. 
of Himyaritic) + -ic.] Same as Himyaritic. 
Himyarite (him'ya-rit), a. [Also Himiarite; < 
Himyar (see def. of Himyaritic) + -ite 2 .] Same 
as Himyaritic. 
The traveller [Charles Huber] was fortunate enough to 
make the second known discovery of Himiarite inscrip- 
tions, of which there were nine. Science, V. ly4. 
Himyaritic (him-ya-rit'ik), a. and n. [< Him- 
yarite + -ic.] I. a. Relatingto the former people 
of southwestern Arabia, or Yemen (said to be 
called Himyaritcs, after an ancient king Him- 
yar; now more often known as Sabaians), and 
to the remains of their civilization, consisting 
of extensive ruins, with numerous inscriptions 
(the oldest, from long before our era) ; Sabsean. 
Also Himyaric, Himyarite. 
One of these intermediate alphabets, the Sabean or Hini- 
yarilic, which supplies the direct ancestral type of the 
Ethiopic, has been obtained from numerous inscriptions 
found near Aden, and in other parts of southern Arabia. 
Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 337. 
II. n. The former language of southwestern 
Arabia, especially of the inscriptions referred 
to above. It was an Arabic dialect, more nearly akin 
to Abyssinian than is the classical Arabic ; it has been 
crowded out of existence by the latter. 
hin (hin), n. [LL., < Gr. iv, civ, vv, Heb. hin, 
said to be of Egyptian origin.] A liquid mea- 
sure of the ancient Egyptians and Hebrews. 
The Egyptian hin was certainly about 0.45 liter, or nearly 
one United States pint, as is shown by the weight and by 
numerous extant standards. The Hebrew hin was prob- 
ably about 6 liters, or 1.6 United States gallons. 
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin 
shall ye have. Lev. xix. 86. 
hinau-tree (hin'ou-tre), . An evergreen tree, 
Elasocarpus dentatus, a native of New Zealand. 
It attains a height of 30 or 40 feet, and the wood is said 
to be valuable in the manufacture of agricultural imple- 
ments. 
hinch (hinch), v. i. [Origin obscure.] To be 
stingy; be miserly; grudge. [Prov. Eng.] 
These Romaines . . . did, lyke louing fathers to their 
countrey, bring in their mony and goodes, without hinch- 
iiiy or pinching, to reliefe the charges of their common 
welth. Bp. Aytmer, Harborough for Faithful Subjects 
[(1559), sig. O, iv. 
hinchboyt, Same as henchboy. 
hinchmant, n. An obsolete form of henchman. 
hinch-pincht (hinch'pinch), n. A certain Christ- 
mas game. 
Hyiuh pynch and laugh not, coale under candlesticke, 
friar Rush, and wo-penny hoc. 
Declaration of Popish Impostures, 1603. (Nares.) 
Pinse morille [F.], the game called Hinch pinch and 
laugh not. Cotyravc. 
hind 1 (hind), n, [< ME. hind, hinde, hynde, < 
AS. hind = D. 7iide = MLG. hinde = OKG. hintd, 
MHG. hinde, G. hinde, now with added fern, 
suffix, hindin = Icel. Sw. Dan. Iiind, a hind; 
perhaps from the verb repr. by Goth, hinthan, 
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take, catch, of which AS. huntian, E. hunt, is 
a secondary form : see hunt and hand, hend 1 , 
Iienti.] 1. The female of the red deer or stag in 
and after its third year: correlative to hart for 
the male. 
As we came frae the hynd hunting, 
We heard fine music ring. 
Young A/cin (Child's Ballads, I. 183). 
The dove pursues the griffin ; the mild kind 
Makes speed to catch the tiger. 
Sliak., M. N. D., ii. 2. 
2. One of various fishes of the family Serranidce 
and genus Epinephelus, as E. druinmond-hayi, a 
grouper of the Gulf coast of the United States. 
hind'-^ (hind), n. [The d is excrescent, as in 
boun-d, soun-d, etc. ; < ME. hiite, hyne, a domes- 
tic, servant (man or woman), a sing, developed 
< AS. hina, ONorth. June, pi., glossing L. domes- 
ticus, a modified form, with added pi. suffix -e, 
of AS. hiwan, ONorth. hhoai, also written higan, 
ONorth. higo, higu, domestics, servants, collec- 
tively household, family; gen. hiicena, contr. 
hina, ONorth. higna, as in hina-ealdor, master 
of a household, ONorth. fader higna, paterfa- 
milias ; pi. of unused *hiwa, > ME. hewe, one 
of a household or family, a servant : see hewe.~\ 
A laboring man attached to a household; an 
agricultural laborer; a peasant; a farm-ser- 
vant; a rustic. [Archaic.] 
Both man and womman, child and hyne and page. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 226. 
Pleased she look'd on all the smiling land, 
And view'd the hinds, who wrought at her command. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 104. 
hind 3 (hind), a. ; superl. hindmost, hinder-most. 
[A mod. 'positive' from the compar. hinder, < 
ME. hinders, hindre, a. (ME. hind, adv., only 
once): see hinder, a."] Pertaining to, consti- 
tuting, or including the rear or posterior ex- 
tremity, as of a body or an object; backward; 
posterior: opposed to fore: as, the hind toe of 
a bird ; the hind feet of a horse ; the hind part 
of an animal. 
The stag 
Hears his own feet, and thinks they sound like more, 
And f ears his hind legs will o'ertake his fore. Pope. 
Hind. An abbreviation of Hindu, Hindustan, 
and Hindustani. In the etymologies of this dic- 
tionary it stands only for Hindustani. 
hindberry (hind'ber"i), n.; pi. hindberries (-iz). 
[< ME. *hindberie (not found), < AS. hind-berie, 
-berige, -berge (= D. henncbezie = OHG. hintperi, 
MHG. hintbere, assimilated himper, G. himbeere 
= Dan. hindbccr = Sw. hindbdr), raspberry, < 
hind, a hind, + bcrie, berry : see hind! and ber- 
ry!.] A European plant of the genus Eubus 
(E. Idatus), a wild variety of the raspberry. 
The scarlet hypp, and the hiiid-oerry, 
And the nut that hung frae the hazel-tree. 
Hogg, Kilmeny. 
hind-brain (hlnd'bran), n. Themetencephalon. 
hind-calft (hind'kaf ), . A hind of the first year. 
Holinshed, Hist. Scot., p. 66. (Halliwell.) 
Hinde Palmer's Act. See act. 
hinder 1 (hin'der), a. [< ME. hindere, hindre, a., 
< AS. "hindera (not found except as in comp.) 
(= OHG. hintaro, hindero, MHG. G. hinterer = 
Icel. hindri), a., hinder, < hinder, adv., back, 
behind, down, = OHG. hintar, MHG. hinter, hin- 
der, G. hinter = Goth, hindar, prep., behind; 
orig. neut. ace. compar. in -der (= -ther, -tcr, as 
in ne-ther, af-ter, etc.) from the base hin- in AS. 
hcon-an, E. hen%, hen-ce, q. v., AS. superl. hin- 
du-ma, hindmost (see hindmost), and in AS. 
hind-an, at the back, behind, be-hindan, behind 
(see behind), = OHG. hintana, MHG. hinden, G. 
hinten, adv., behind, = Goth, hindana, prep., 
behind, beyond (the base hind- in these forms 
being due to the compar. regarded as hind-er, 
etc.): see hen 2 , hence, and behind. Hence the 
later positive hind 3 , and the verbs hinder!, hin- 
cfer 2 .] Pertaining to the rear; being or com- 
ing after; latter: same as hind 3 , which is a 
modern form, now more common. 
And zit at Constantynoble is the hyndre partye of the 
Heed [of John the Baptist]. Mandeville, Travels, p. 107. 
Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him un- 
der the fifth rib. 2 Sam. ii. 23. 
The Beaver is as big as an ordinary water dog, but his 
legs exceeding short. His fore-feete like a dogs, his hinder 
feet like a Swans. Capt. Juhn Smith, Works, I. 124. 
hinder 1 (hin'der), v. i. [< hinder, a. Cf. hin- 
der 2 , v.1 To go backward. [Prov. Eng.] 
hinder 2 (hin'der), v. [< ME. hinderen, hindren, 
< AS. hindrian (= OFries. hinderia = D. hin- 
deren = OHG. hindaron, hinderen, MHG. G. hin- 
dern = Icel. hindra = Sw. hindra = Dan. hindre, 
hinder), < hinder, adv., back, behind: see hin- 
der! and hind 3 .] I. trans. To hold or keep 
hindhead 
back; prevent from moving or proceeding; 
stop; interrupt; obstruct; check; impede; re- 
tard: as, to hinder one from entering; their 
march was hindered by fallen trees. It denotes 
either partial or complete obstruction, accord- 
ing to the context. 
Mony woundit tho weghis & warpit to ground, 
Mony shalke thurgh shot with there sharpe gere, 
And myche hi/ndrit the hepe with there hard shot. 
'Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6781. 
How hard were my hert, to hold hym as trend, 
That so higlily me hyndret, & my hate seruet ! 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9268. 
Dronkennesse hurteth thy lionestye, and hyndrcth thy 
good name. bailees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 78. 
The euill and vicious disposition of the bralne hinders the 
w .n in 1, judgement and discourse of man with busie & dis- 
ordered phantasies. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 14. 
Them that were entering in ye hindered. Luke xi. 52. 
Advance your lady ; 
I dare not hinder your most high preferment. 
Fletcher, W ildgoose Chase, iv. 1. 
What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of fami- 
lies, from having the same right'/ Locke. 
My tears must stop, for every drop 
Hinders needle and thread ! 
Head, Song of the Shirt. 
Everything has been done that inherited depravity 
could do, to hinder the promise of Heaven from .its fulfil- 
ment. Mary. Fuller, Woman in 19th Century, p. 25. 
=Syn. To delay, oppose, prevent, obstruct, embarrass. 
fl. intrans. To be an obstacle or impedi- 
ment ; stand in the way. 
This objection hinders not but that the heroic action of 
some commander . . . may be written. Dryden. 
hinderance, n. See hindrance. 
hinder-end (hin'der-end'),n. 1. Extremity; ter- 
mination; ludicrously, the buttocks. [Scotch.] 
Ye preached us ... out o' this new city o' refuge afore 
our hinder-end was well hafted in it. 
Scott, Old Mortality, viii. 
2. pi. Refuse of grain after it is winnowed; 
chaff. [Prov. Eng.] 
hinderer (hin'der-er), . [< ME. hinderer, 
hindrer (= MHG. hindercere, G. ver-hinderer) , < 
hinder 2 , v., + -er 1 .] One who or that which hin- 
ders. 
The bright sonne stont aboue 
Which is the hinderer of the night. 
And fortherer of the dales light. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., vii. 
I am rather a hinderer than a f urtherer of the common- 
weal. J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 259. 
hinderestt, a. superl. [< ME. hinderest (= OHG. 
hintarost, hindarost, MHG. hinderst), superl.; < 
hinder* + -est 1 .] Hindmost. 
Thei kepte hem-self all-ther hinderest for to diffende the 
other that feyntly were horsed that myght no faster go 
than a paas. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 446. 
Evere he rood the hyndreste of the route. 
Chaucer, Gen. ProL to C. T., 1. 622. 
hinderlans, hinderlets, n. pi. See hinderlins. 
hinderlingt (hin'der-ling), n. [< ME. hinder- 
ling, < AS. hinderling, mentioned only in the 
(Latin) laws of Edward the Confessor as a pro- 
verbial term of angry contempt, implying a per- 
son devoid of all honor, < hinder, hinder, behind, 
back, + -ling: see hinder^ and -ling 1 .'] Same as 
hilding. 
hinderlins (hin'der-linz), . pi. [Sc.; < hind- 
er! + -lins, i. e. -lings: cf. backliiis, backliiigs, 
adv. Other Sc. forms, hinderlets, hinderlitlis, 
appear to be adapted to lith, a joint, division: 
see lith. Cf. ME. hindermore, the hinder parts.] 
The hinder parts ; the buttocks ; the posteriors. 
Also hinderlans, hindcrlands, hinderlets. 
We downa bide the coercion of gude braidclaith about 
our hinderlands. Scott. Bob Iloy, xxiii. 
hindermoret (hin'der-mor), a. and . [< ME. 
hindermore; < hinder 1 + -more.] I. a. Hinder. 
II. . The hinder parts. Wyclif. 
hindermost (hin'der-most), a. superl. [< hind- 
erl + -most: cf. hindmost.] Same as hindmost. 
He put the handmaids and their children foremost, and 
Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hind- 
ermost. Gen. xxxiii. 2. 
hinder-night (hin'der-nit), n. Last night; yes- 
ternight. [Scotch.] 
I dream'd a dreary dream this hinder night. 
Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd, i. 1. 
hind-foremost (hind'for'most), adv. Hind side 
before. [Rare.] 
The tall girl snatched the bonnet and put it on her own 
head hind-foremost with a grin. 
George Klwt, Mill on the Floss, L IL 
hind-gut (hind'gut), n. See gut. 
hindhand (hind'hand), n. The hinder part of 
a horse ; the part behind the head, neck, and 
fore quarters. 
hindhead (hind'hed), n. The back part of the 
head; the occiput: opposed to forehead. 
