▪ I. † hild, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 hyldan, 3–6 hild-, 4 huld-(ü), 4–5 hyld-, 5 held-, (5 hilt). pa. tense 1 hylde, 3–5 hilde, 4–5 hildide. pa. pple. 3 i-huld, 4 y-huld, huld, i-hylde, 5 y-hillid, 5–6 hylt(e), 6 hild(e), hylded, 6–7 hilded, (7 hileded).
[OE. hyldan (:—*huldjan), f. hold carcase; cf. ON. hylda to slash (Vigfusson).]
trans. a. To flay, skin. b. To strip off (the skin).
| a 1000 Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 223/1 Discoriat, hyldeþ. c 1000 ælfric Lev. iii. 6 And hyldon þa offrunga and ceorfon to sticcon. c 1275 Lay. 20958 Þat folk hii a-slowe Þe cherles hii hilden. [c 1205 uloȝen]. c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 471/321 Ȝuyt hadde ich leouere ich were i-huld. c 1350 Will. Palerne 2587 Hastili hulde we þe hides of þise bestes. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 1639 Al quike y rede þan let hem hylde þe glotouns alle & some. 1382 Wyclif Micah iii. 3 Whiche eeten fleshe of my peple and hildiden the skyn of hem fro aboue. c 1440 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 458 Take conynges or hares, hilt and wassh hom. c 1440 Gesta Rom. xxxiv. 133 (Harl. MS.) To the secounde [tormentor] he comaundid to helde him qwyke. 1546 J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 36, I will as soone be hylt, As waite againe for the mooneshine in the water. 1647 Trapp Comm. Matt. vi. 2 Till half their hides be hilded off. 1654 ― Comm. Job xxxvii. 8 Till half hileded by the Countreymen. |
Hence hilding vbl. n.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 359 Þe sleynge and þe hildynge of a leon. 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 80 b, Membraan, bycause it was pulled of by hyldynge. |
▪ II. hild, -e
obs. inf., pa. tense and pa. pple. of hield v.
▪ III. hild, -e
obs. pa. tense and pa. pple. of hold v.