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To HIDE, v. n. To He hid ; to be concealed.—A fox, 
Hard run, begged of a countryman to help him to feme 
Riding place. L’E/lrange. 
HIDE,/ - [JjyiSe, Sax. kaude, Dut.j The fkin of any 
animal, either raw or drefled: 
Pififtratus was fir.ft to grafp their hands, 
And fpread foft hides upon the yellow fands. Pope. 
The human fkin; in contempt: 
Oh, tiger’s heart, wrapt in a woman’s hide! 
How could’ft thou drain the life-blood of the child ? 
Shakcfpeare. 
A certain quantity of land. [ Hide , kyde, Fr. hida, barba¬ 
rous Lat. as much as one plough can till.] A plough¬ 
land; which, in fome old manufcripts, is laid to be 120 
acres. Bede calls it familiam, and fays it is as much as 
will maintain a family. Crompton, in his Jurifdidt. fo.222, 
fays, a hide of land contains one hundred acres, and eight 
hides make a knight’s fee. But fir Edward Coke holds, 
that a knight’s fee] a hide or plough-land, a yard-land, 
or an oxgang of land, do not contain any certain number 
of acres. Co. Lit. 69. The diftribution of England by 
hides of land is extremely ancient; ' for there is mention 
of them in the laws of king Ina, c. 14. See Spelman. 
HI'DEBOUND, adj. A horfe is faith to be hidebound 
when his fkin flicks fo hard to his ribs and back, that 
you cannot pull up or loofen the one from the other. It 
fometimes comes by poverty and bad keeping; at other 
times from over-riding, or a forfeit. {In trees.] Being 
in the flate in which the bark will not give way to the 
growth: 
Like flinted hidebound trees, that juft have got 
Sufficient fap at once to bear and rot. Swift. 
Harfh; untraftable : 
And ftill, the harfher and hidebounder 
The damfels prove, become the fonder. Hudibras. 
Niggardly ; penurious ; parfimonious. Ainfwortk. 
HID'EGILD, Hinegild, or HuDEGELD,y; [from 
jjr&e, Sax. the fkin, and gelt», a price.] The price by 
which a villein or fervant redeemed his fkin from being 
whipped in fuch trefpaffes as anciently incurred that 
corporal punifhment. See Fleta, lib. 1. c. 47. 
HI'DEL,/. [from hide. ] A fandtuary; a place of 
fafety. Scott. . 
HID'EOUS, adj. \_hideux , Fr.] Horrible; dreadful; 
(hocking.—If he could have turned himfelf to as many 
forms as Proteus, every form fhould have been made 
hideous. Sidney. 
I fled, and cried out death! 
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and figh’d 
From all her caves, and back refounded, death! Milton. 
It is commonly ufed of vifible objedls: the following 
ufe is lefs authorifed.—’Tis forced through the hiatufes 
at the bottom of the fea with fuch vehemence, that it 
puts the fea into the moft horrible diforder, making it 
rage and roar with a moft hideous and amazing noife. 
Woodward. —It is ufed by Spenfer in a fenfe not now re¬ 
tained; deteftable.—O hideous hunger of dominion! Spenfer. 
HID'EOUSLY, adv. Horribly; dreadfully; in a man¬ 
ner that fhocks: 
I arm myfelf 
To welcome the condition of the time; 
Which cannot look more kideoujly on me, 
Than I have drawn it in my fantafy. Shakefpeare. 
HID'EOUSNESS, /. Horriblenefs; dreadfulnefs; 
terror: 
That lye, and cog, and flout, deprave, and flander. 
Go antickly, and fhew outward kideoufnefs. Shakefpeart. 
HI'DER,/. He that hides. 
HI'DING-PLACE, f. A place to hide in. 
Vox, IX. No. 6 3 z. 
HI'DRA, a town of Africa, in the vveftern part of the 
kingdom of Tunis : no miles weft-fouth-weft of Tunis. 
HIDRO'A,/. [from Gr. fweat.] A medical term 
for the puftules produced by fweating in hot weather. 
HIDRONO'SOS,yi [from Gr. fweat, and voao( t 
a difeafe.] The difeafe called the fweating ficknefs. 
HIDROT'ICS, J'. [from Gr. fweat.] Medicines 
which caufe perforation. 
7 b HIE, v. n. [Jjiegan, Sax.] To haften;. to go in 
hafte.—The youth, returning to his miftrefs, hies, Dryden, 
The fnake no fooner hift, 
But virtue heard it, and away file ky'd, Crajhdw. 
It was anciently ufed with or without the reciprocal 
prono'un. It is now almoft obfolete in all its ufes: 
Aufter fpy’d him ; 
Cruel Aufter thither hy'd him. Crajhaxo. 
HI'EL, [Heb. the life of God.] A man’s name. 
HIEL'MAR, a lake of Sweden, in the province of 
Sudermanland, thirty miles long, and from two to feven 
wide : fixty miles weft of Stockholm. 
HI'EN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the pro¬ 
vince of Pe-tche-li: twelve miles foijth of Ho-kien. 
HI'EN-YAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Chen-fi: twelve miles weft-north-weft 
of Si-ngan. 
HI'ENSOS, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Macedonia : fifty-two miles fouth-eaft of Salo- 
niki. 
HI'EOU-KI, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Fo-kien: twenty-fix miles fouth of 
Yen-ping, 
HI'EOU-NHING, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Hou-quang: forty miles fouth of 
Ou-tchang. 
HIERACPTES, f. [from tl ga|, Gr. the hawk.] A 
precious ftone of the colour of a hawk. 
HI'ERACITES,y. in ecclefiaftical hiftory, Chriftian 
heretics in the third century : fo called from their leader 
Hierax, a philofopher of Egypt; who taught that Mel- 
chifedek was the Holy Ghoit, denied the refurredtion, 
and condemned marriage. 
HIER A'CIUM, J. [legaxio#, Gr. pertaining to hawks; 
becaufe hawks were fuppofed to Iharpen their fight with 
the juice. Hence alfo the Englifh name.] Hawkweed; 
in botany, a genus of the clafs fyngenefia, order polyga- 
mia asqualis, natural order of compofitae femiflofculofas, 
(cichoracead, Jujf.) The generic characters are—Calyx: 
common imbricate, ovate ; fcales feveral, linear, very un¬ 
equal, longitudinal, and incumbent. Corolla: compound, 
imbricate, uniform; corollules hermaphrodite, nume¬ 
rous, equal; proper monopetalous, ligulate, linear, trun. 
Cate, five-toothed. Stamina: filaments five, capillary, 
very Ihort ; antherae cylindric, tubulous. Piftillum : 
germ fubovate ; ftyle filiform, the length of the ftamens; 
ftigmas two, bowed back. Pericarpium : none; calyx 
. converging, ovate. Seeds: folitary, obtufely four-cor¬ 
nered, Ihort; down capillary, feflile. Receptaculum: 
naked .—EJfential Charabler. Calyx imbricate, (or calcu¬ 
late,) ovate; down limple, fefiile; receptaculum naked. 
Species. I. With a one-flowered fcape. i. Hieracium 
incanum, or hoary hawkweed: leaves quite entire, fome- 
what tooth letted, lanceolate, fcabrous. Root thick, 
perennial, blackilh on the outlide, white within. Stems 
round, upright, twice or thrice the length of the leaves, 
with only one or two fubfetaceous leaflets on them, and 
a fingle flower at the end. Leaves all next the root, 
narrow-lanceolate, fomewhat attenuated dt the bafe into 
the petiole, from two to fix inches in length, eredf, 
thickifh, hoary on both lides, with a clofe nap of white 
hairs ftellate at the tip; the Item alfo has the fame fort 
of ftellate hairs, only feflile. Calyx liifpid, with like 
hairs, afcending; the fcales of the calyx are acuminate. 
Corolla yellow. The receptacle is clothed with >ery 
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