hid, ppl. a.
(hɪd)
Forms: see under hide v.
Hidden, concealed, secret.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 172 Semei bitocneð þe utwarde ancre—nout Hester þe ihudde. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 299 Pharisees..þat ben hud monumentis. 1382 ― 1 Cor. iv. 5 Þe hid thingis of derknessis. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxvi. 45 Hid malyce and dispyte. a 1598 Rollock Serm. Wks. (Wodrow Soc.) I. 379 He will seirche..to the hiddest hirnes of thy hart. 1608 Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. ix. and x. 44 Such things as they can come by: which is called hid food. 1820 Keats Lamia ii. 54 Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose. |
† b. In phr. in hid (hiddis), a literal transl. of L. in occulto, in abscondito. Obs.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter xxvi. 9 He hild me..in the hid [L. in abscondito] of his tabernakile. c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 104 No man doiþ ouȝt in hiddis and ȝit he castiþ to be in apert. c 1400 Apol. Loll. 104 Þingis þat þei don in hid. |