▪ I. hide, n.1
(haɪd)
Forms: 1 h{yacu}d, 3 hude (ü), huide, 3–4 hid, 3–8 hyde, 4 hidd, 4–5 huyde, 4–6 hyd, 6 hydd, 4– hide.
[OE. h{yacu}d str. fem. = OFris. hûd, OS. hût (MDu. hut, huut (d), Du. huid), OHG., MHG. hût, Ger. haut, ON. h{uacu}ð, Goth. *hûþs:—OTeut. *hūði-z:—pre-Teut. *kūti{p}s: cf. L. cutis, Gr. κύτος.]
1. a. The skin of an animal, raw or dressed: more particularly applied to the skins of the larger beasts and such as may be tanned into leather.
| a 900 O.E. Chron. an. 891 Se bat wæs ᵹeworht of þriddan healfre hyde þe hi on foron. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 199 Þe neddre..criepeð nedlinge þureh nerewe hole, and bileueð hire hude baften hire. c 1220 Bestiary 144 Ðanne ðe neddre is of his hid naked. c 1230 Hali Meid. 37 Seoð þe cat at þe fliche & te hund at te huide. 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 116 Þo carf he a bole hyde smale al to a þong. c 1400 Rom. Rose 7315 Teren the wolf out of his hide. 1467 in Eng. Gilds 396 That they do not shave flesh, skynnes, or huydes, but above the Brugge. 1495–7 Nav. Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 229 For halff an Oxe hyde all Redie coryed and Tanned. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 223 Fast by the hyde the Wolfe Lowder caught. 1674 tr. Scheffer's Lapland 140 They put on a garment made of hides. 1727 Swift Desire & Possess. 57 Strip his Hyde, and pick his Bones, Regardless of his dying Groans. 1768 J. Byron Narr. Patagonia (1778) 51 An ox's hide, used on board for sifting powder, and called a gunner's hide. 1853 C. Morfit Tanning, etc. 146 Hides..comprise the skins of oxen, horses, cows, bulls, and buffaloes, and are employed for thick sole leather. |
b. In collocation with hair, esp. in phr. (in) hide and hair: wholly, entirely; neither hide nor hair: nothing whatever. (So Du. huid en haar.)
| c 1330 [see 2]. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Adrian 514 Wnuemmyt in hyd ore hare. 1450–70 Holland Howlat 950 This Howlat hidowis of hair and of hyde. c 1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 523 He sall exhibite the samin..cattel, in hyde and hair, at ane certane day and place. 1857 Holland Bay Path xxv. 303, I havn't seen hide nor hair of the piece ever since. |
2. a. The human skin. (Since 17th c. contemptuous or jocular.)
| a 1000 Laws of ælfred c. 70 (Schmid) Gif mon oðrum rib forslea binnan ᵹehalre hyde, ᵹeselled x scill. to bote; ᵹif sio hyd sie tobrocen..ᵹeselle xv scill. to bote. a 1300 Cursor M. 3661 Þou wat mi hid es smith and bar, And esau es rugh wit har. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14904 He sey neuere er, So faire childre of huyde ne her. c 1460 Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 224 Alle rent is thi hyde. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. lii, He wes fairer of visage and hide, than wes ony lady of the warld. 1645 Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 372 Who could have beleevd so much insolence durst vent it self from out the hide of a varlet? 1781 Cowper Expost. 486 He found thee savage..Taught thee to clothe thy pink'd and painted hide. 1842 J. W. Orderson Creol. x. 106 One who..tanned the hide of a poor pigmy. a 1873 Lytton Pausanias 138 The poor fellow meant only to save his own hide. |
† b. In alliterative collocation with hue (colour, complexion, countenance). Obs.
| c 1330 King of Tars (Ritson) 752 Hit hedde bothe lymes and face..Huyde and heuh, bon and fel, And everi lyme. c 1400 Rowland & O. 1230 Full fayre of hewe & hyde. c 1420 Awntyrs off Arth. 108 (Douce MS.) But on hide ne on huwe, no heling hit hadde. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 305 His awin deir sone..Of hyde and hew baith plesand wes and fair. a 1549 Murning Maidin xii. in Laneham's Let. (1871) Introd. 151 Ye ar so haill of hew and hyd. 1825–80 Jamieson s.v. Hyd, ‘It's sae dirty, it'll never come to hyd or hew.’ Loth. |
c. Impudence, effrontery, ‘nerve’. (App. an elliptical use of ‘thick hide’.)
Freq. in Australia and N.Z. but also occurs elsewhere.
| 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xi. 150 Don't you think you have a hide to ask me? 1926 ‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians, Hide, a slang term denoting impudence. 1947 K. Tennant Lost Haven ii. 37 He might have told me. Just springing it on me..out of the blue... Like his hide! For two pins I'd tell him where to go. 1949 H. Wadman Life Sentence 9 Talk about self-confidence... What a hide! 1959 P. H. Johnson Unspeakable Skipton v. 34 The beast has had the hide..to dictate that to a secretary. 1961 Coast to Coast 1959–60 120 He wants to be a farmer. A farmer! Had the hide to try and tell me what farm life's like—me, born and bred on one. |
3. As a material for clothing, shoes, etc.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 935 God mad þam kyrtels þan of hide. Ibid. 2250 Þar-for most þai þam hide Bath wit hors and camel hide. 1827 D. Johnson Ind. Field Sports 232 Pieces of cane bound round with..slips of raw hide. 1860 Longfellow Wayside Inn, K. Olaf xix. x, Eric severed the cables of hide. 1865 Kingsley Herew. x, They wore short jackets of hide. |
4. A whip made of a beast's hide. Cf. cowhide 3.
| 1851 Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxiii, Pork and pipe-clay, accompanied with a too liberal allowance of the ‘hide’. |
5. attrib. and Comb., as hide-beating, hide-curing, hide-dresser, hide-dressing, hide-factory, hide-fair, hide-knob, hide-merchant, hide-net, hide-plate, hide-seller, hide-thong, hide-whip; hide-blown a., bloated; hide-drogher [drogher], a coasting vessel trading in hides; the master of such a vessel; hence hide-droghing, trading with such a vessel; hide-factor, a dealer in hides who supplies tanners; hide-handler, a machine or vat in which hides are treated with the liquor used in tanning them; hide-mill, a machine for softening dried hides; hide-money (transl. of Gr. δερµατικόν): see quot.; hide-rope, a rope made of plaited cowhide (Knight Dict. Mech.); hide-scraper, -stretcher, -worker, appliances used in preparing hides for leather.
| 1660 R. Coke Power & Subj. 150 Beat his hide, or make him to fear a *hide-beating. |
| 1834 Sir H. Taylor 1st Pt. Artevelde i. iii. (D.) Slothful, *hide-blown, gormandizing niggards. |
| 1890 Daily News 24 Mar. 6/5 A Free Trade demonstration of the tanners and *hide-dressers..in Paris..A thousand men who used to be employed in tanning and *hide dressing. |
| 1841 Emerson Lect., Man the Reformer Wks. (Bohn) II. 239 It is the sailor, the *hide-drogher, the butcher. 1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 602 The beach where Dana once loaded his hides in his ‘hide drogher’. |
| 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xv. 41 A large ship..as rusty and worn as two years' ‘*hide-droghing’ could make her. |
| 1894 Daily News 1 May 8/3 *Hide fairs were things common enough in many districts of rural England in old days. |
| 1853 Pratt in C. Morfit Tanning, etc. 321 Three *hide-mills, for softening the dry Spanish hides. |
| 1846 Grote Greece ii. vi. (1849) II. 475 note, The *hide-money (δερµατικόν) arising from the numerous victims offered at public sacrifices at Athens, is accounted for as a special item of the public revenue. |
| 1836–48 B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Knights i. i, There succeeds a thievish, loud *hide-seller. |
| 1851 Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. li, Raw *hide-thongs were looped about our wrists and ankles. |
| 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 274/2 A blunted piece of iron, known as a ‘*hide-worker’..easily removes the hair after the hide is taken from the water where it was ‘dumped’ after the liming. |
▪ II. hide, n.2 Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 1 h{iacu}ᵹid, h{iacu}ᵹd, h{iacu}d, h{yacu}d, 1–9 hyde, 1– hide.
[OE. h{iacu}d str. fem., earlier h{iacu}ᵹid, app. from *h{iacu}wid, deriv. of h{iacu}w-, h{iacu}ᵹ-, household, family: cf. hewe. The suffix is obscure.
In the Latin text of Beda, and elsewhere, expressed by familia, for which in the OE. transl. h{iacu}wisc and h{iacu}wscipe, derivatives of h{iacu}w- family, interchange with h{iacu}d.]
1. A measure of land in Old English times, continued also for some time after the Norman Conquest, varying in extent with the nature of the ground, etc.: primarily, the amount considered adequate for the support of one free family with its dependants; at an early date defined as being as much land as could be tilled with one plough in a year. See carucate.
The question of the extent of the hide has been much controverted. The general conclusion appears to be that it was normally = 120 acres; but the size of the acre itself varied. See Maitland, Domesday and Beyond.
| 848 in Earle Land Charters (1888) 122 Ego berchtwulf cyning sile forðrede minum ðeᵹne niᵹen hiᵹida lond in wudotune. 869 in Birch Cartular. Sax. (1885) 524 Eac wudulond all hit is ᵹemæne þara fif & tuentiᵹ hiᵹda. c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xviii. [xvi] (1890) 306 Is þæs ilcan ealondes ᵹemet æfter Ongolcynnes eahte twelf hund hida [Est autem mensura ejusdem insulæ [Vectæ] juxta æstimationem Anglorum, mille ducentarum familiarum]. a 1000 Laws of æthelred in Schmid Gesetze 242 And sceote man æᵹhwilce hide pæniᵹ oððe pæniᵹes weorð, and bringe man þæt to cirican. c 1000 Wergilde c. 2 § 7 Ibid. App. vii. 396 Gif Wilisc man ᵹeþeo, þæt he hæbbe hiwisc landes [Laws of Ine c. 32 Gif Wylisc mon hæbbe hide londes] and mæᵹe cyninges gafol forðbringan, þonne bið his wer-gild cxx scill. And ᵹif he ne ᵹeþeo buton to healfre hide, þonne si his wer lxxx scill. 1086 Domesday Bk. in Kennett Par. Antiq. (1818) I. 88 Idem Rotbertus tenet Bernecestre..Ibi sunt 15 hidæ et dim. Terra 22 car. a 1100 O.E. Chron. an. 1008 Her bebead se cyng þæt man sceolde ofer eall Angel cynn scypu feastlice wircean þæt is þonne [of] þrym hund hidum, and of .x. hidan ænne scegð, and of .viii. hidum helm and byrnan. Ibid. an. 1086 Næs an hid landes innan Englæ lande þæt he nyste hwa heo hæfde. [c 1154 Henry of Huntingdon vi. 360 (Du Cange) Hida Anglice vocatur terra unius aratri culturæ sufficiens per annum. c 1175 Dialog. de Scacc. i. xvii, Quid Hida..secundum vulgarem opinionem. Ruricolæ melius hoc norunt; verum sicut ab ipsis accepimus, hida a primitiva institutione ex centum acris constat.] c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 52/185 An hondret hidene of guod lond with hire he ȝaf þer. 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 434 Of ech hyde of Engelond þre ssyllynges he nom þo. 13.. K. Alis. 458 Whan corne ripeþ in heruest tyde Mery it is in feld & hyde. 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxii. 246 So an hyde of lande conteyneth .xx. acres. 1593 Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex i. 5 The vsuall account of lande at this day in Englande is by acres, yardes, carewes, hydes, knightes fees, cantreds, baronies and counties. 1614 Selden Titles Hon. 273 By their account cxcii. acres made a Hyde. 1788 R. Kelham Domesday Bk. (L.), The just value of a hide, that might fit the whole kingdom..was ever of an uncertain quantity. 1895 Pollock & Maitland Eng. Law I. 347 In the north of England this unit appears as the carucate..In the south the hide appears in place of the carucate, and the hide is generally regarded as made up of four, but it may well be of six virgates. 1897 Maitland Domesday & Beyond 510 They know but one tenemental unit. It is the hiwisc, the terra unius familiæ, the terra unius manentis, the manse, the hide. |
b. hide and gaine [OF. gaigne, gaingne arable land, ‘terre labourable’ (Godefroy)].
These words appear to be given originally as synonyms of arable land. But later compilers took them as a phrase.
| 1347 in Fitzherb. Abridg. tit. Admeasurement ¶8 fol. 15 La terre a qe le comen est claim app[endant] fuit auncient terre hide & geign. 1628 Coke On Litt. 85 b, And the Common Law giueth errable land (which anciently is called Hyde & gaine) the preheminencie and precedencie before meadowes [etc.]. 1658 Phillips, Hide and Gain, arable Land, or the same as gainage. 1708 Termes de la Ley 383 Hide and Gayne did anciently signifie arrable Land. |
2. nonce-use. (Associated with hide n.1) As much land as could be measured by a thong cut out of a hide. (In quot. referring to the story of Dido's purchase of the site of Carthage, Virg. æn. I. 368.)
| 1594 Marlowe & Nashe Dido iv. ii, She crav'd a hide of ground to build a town. |
▪ III. hide, n.3
[f. hide v.1]
† I. 1. (In ME. use.) The action or an act of hiding; concealment. Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 10771 Quen ioseph sagh na hide ne dught, Nedings forth his wand he broght. Ibid. 26115 O mans hert an opening wide, þat man can scheu wit-vten hide. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. viii. 31 A stythye stunte hire sturne stryf, that ys in heovene hert in hyde. |
II. 2. (In modern use.) A hiding-place; a cache. Also attrib.
| 1649 T. Wodenote Hermes Theol. viii. 13 Hunted by an Orthodox Divine..who can easily ferret them out of all their hides and holds. 1864 ‘Manhattan’ Marion I. 20 [He] would..go early to his hide, and conceal himself, with the barrels of his duck gun loaded with buck-shot. 1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 301/1 A nice little ‘hide’, containing not only the articles he was in search of, but also other stolen property. 1920 Nature CV. 146/2 The cock bird discovered Mr. Brook leaving the ‘hide’. 1934 Brit. Birds XXVIII. 97, I had just seen my companion into his hide tent..when a small wader came off her nest at my feet. 1935 Discovery Aug. 228/1 We built our first hide..four feet away from one nest. 1940 ‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk ii. i. 85 The guns and vehicles went into a ‘hide’ in a large orchard. 1952 E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture xi. 220 The others had been sealed into a hide in the camp and were not discovered for four days. 1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds iv. 43 He had already started work on the construction of permanent observation huts or hides built into the sea-wall itself, from which it was possible to watch the wild geese in comfort. |
▪ IV. hide, v.1
(haɪd)
Pa. tense hid; pa. pple. hid, hidden (ˈhɪd(ə)n). Forms: 1 h{yacu}dan, (3rd sing. h{yacu}t), h{iacu}dan, 3–4 hude (ü), (3rd sing. hitt, hut, hit), 3–5 huide, huyde, 3– hide, (4–5 hid(d, hyd, 6 hyed). pa. tense. α. 1 h{yacu}dde, h{iacu}dde, 2–4 hudde, 3–6 hidde, etc., (5 hude), 4– hid. β. 5 hidded, 5–7 hided. pa. pple. α. 1 h{yacu}ded, h{iacu}dd, 2–4 ihud(de, 4–5 yhud(de, -hid(de, -hyd, (y)hed(de, i-hid, -hydd, hud, 4–6 hidd(e, etc., 4– hid. β. 6 hyden, 6– hidden.
[OE. h{yacu}dan = MDu. hûden (huyden, hueden), MLG. hûden to hide, LG. (ver)hüen:—OTeut. *hûdjan, variously referred to the root of OE. h{yacu}d, hide n.1, and to a pre-Teut. *keudh-, kudh-, seen in Gr. κεύθειν to hide, cover up, conceal. The late pa. pple. hidden is after strong vbs., e.g. ride, ridden.]
1. a. trans. To put or keep out of sight; to conceal intentionally from the view or notice of others; to conceal from discovery, to secrete. Freq. in phr. to hide away. Also const. up. (Cf. sense 2 b.)
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xxvi. 184 Swæ se læce hyt his isern wið ðone mon þe he sniðan wile. c 1132 O.E. Chron. an. 963 [He] fand þa hidde in þa ealde wealle writes þet Headda abb heafde ær ᵹewriton. a 1200 Moral Ode 28 Al to muchel ich habbe ispent, to litel ihud in horde. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 352 Ðo gunen he same sriden, And limes in leues hiden. a 1300 Cursor M. 3677 (Cott.) Wit a rugh skin sco hidd his hals. c 1340 Ibid. 910 (Trin.) Þou wommon..shalt haue euer þi heed hud. 1486 Bk. St. Albans E iv b, In moore or in moos he hidyth hem fast. 1490 Caxton Eneydos xxiv. 89 She hidded the swerde. 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 32, I had no leisure to hide away my coine from them. 1646 Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 339 Our English proverb saith, he that hath hid can find. 1770 Junius Lett. xxxvi. 177 Retire, then..and hide your blushes from the world. 1854 W. Collins Hide & Seek III. xxiii. 227, I shall find him! I don't care where he's hid away from me. Ibid. xxiv. 271 She..hid it away in her bosom. 1875 Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Eloq. Wks. (Bohn) III. 190 Mothers hid their sons, and wives their husbands..lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery. 1884 ‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxiv. 241 It's reckoned he left three or four thousand in cash hid up som'ers. 1891 C. Graves Field of Tares 109 There was a fresh canvas upon the easel, the tattered one had been carefully hidden away. 1928 E. Wallace Flying Squad xvi. 169 Bradley's fond of her. He hid her up once: why shouldn't he hide her up again? 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway vi. 168 It was impossible to hide up evidence like that. |
† b. To conceal so as to shield or protect. Obs.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter xxx. 21 [xxxi. 20] (Mätz.) Þou salt am hide Fra fordrovinges of men. 1382 Wyclif Ps. xxvi[i]. 5 He hidde me in his tabernacle in the day of euelis. 1535 Coverdale Ps. lxiii[i]. 2 Hyde me from the gatheringe together of y⊇ frowarde. 1614 Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 422 Many..having nothing but a cote of thatch to hide them from heauen. |
c. to hide one's face: (a) in Biblical language, to turn away or withdraw one's eyes, take no heed. (Also to hide one's ear, hide oneself.) (b) = sense 1 d (b) below.
| 1382 Wyclif Job xiii. 24 Whi thi face thou hidist, and demest me thin enemy? 1560 Bible (Genev.) Ps. xxx. 7 Thou didest hide thy face, and I was troubled. ― Isa. i. 15 When you shal stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you. 1611 Bible Lam. iii. 56 Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 1780 Cowper Table T. 422 When Avarice starves (and never hides his face) Two or three millions of the human race. |
d. to hide one's head: (a) to protect one's head, to shelter oneself, take shelter; (b) to keep out of sight, keep from shame or discomfiture.
| c 1400 Apol. Loll. 40 Pore He was, for He had not were to hied His heuid. a 1529 Skelton Howe the douty Duke 185 Crepe into your caues Your heedes for to hyde. 1563 W. Fulke Meteors (1640) 57 Some Rivers there be, that hide their heads under the Earth, and..far off, breake out againe. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 18 But yet I warne thee now..hide thy head. 1593 Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 6 Richard, not farre from hence, hath hid his head. 1667, 1840 [see diminished 2]. 1778 A. Hamilton Wks. (1886) VII. 539, I believe it [a faction] unmasked its batteries too soon, and begins to hide its head. |
† e. all hid: the signal cry in hide-and-seek; hence, an early name of the game itself. Obs.
| 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 78 All hid, all hid, an old infant play. 1602 Dekker Satirom. (N.), Cries all hid, as boys do. 1607 Tourneur Rev. Trag. iii. v. Wks. 1878 II. 82 A lady can At such all-hid beguile a wiser man. 1632 Sherwood, All hidde, jeu, où vn se cache pour estre trouvé des autres. |
2. refl. and intr. a. refl. To put or keep oneself out of sight, or to conceal oneself.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xv. 88 Ge fleoð, & hydað eow. c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) ciii. 21 Hi on holum hydaþ hi ᵹeorne. c 1200 Ormin 13736 Þeȝȝ baþe hemm hiddenn sone anan. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3410 Þey nadde no tome for to fle, Ne place to huyden hem priue. c 1386 Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 504 Right as a serpent hit hym vnder floures Til he may seen his tyme for to byte. 1489 Caxton Faytes of A. ii. iii. 94 They hided hem self within the thykke busshes. 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. IV 13 b, Lurkyng and hidyng him selfe in privy places. 1639 T. Brugis tr. Camus' Mor. Relat. 255 The blade hides it selfe in the handle. 1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 116 Tigers have a wonderful knack of hiding themselves. |
b. intr. To conceal oneself. Also with up.
hide fox and all after: a cry formerly uttered in the game of hide-and-seek, when one player hides and the rest seek him. Cf. 1 e.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8864 On heþ and hilles to hyde in hulk. c 1340 Cursor M. 16742 (Trin.) Þe liȝt bigan to hyde. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. st. 808 Where ever he satte, stode, or hude. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iv. ii. 32 Hide Fox, and all after [cf. hide-and-seek 1]. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 199 The recesses in which she ultimately hides. 1872 J. E. Taylor Half Hours in Green Lanes (1877) 108 The slightest sound would cause them to hide up. |
c. to hide out: to go into hiding; to hide from the authorities. U.S.
| 1884 J. C. Harris Mingo 124 The revenue fellers better not git too clost ter Hog Mountain, bekaze the hidin'-out bizness is done played. 1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Gt. Smoky Mts. ii. 44 Loneliness had made his sensibilities tender and ‘hiding out’ affected his spirits more than dodging the officers. 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter i. 19 You got to hide out when that word is delivered, suh. 1924 F. R. Bechdolt Tales Old-Timers 345 A man..could hide out and hold up his herd. 1969 C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 25 So he tries to find a pad where he can hide out. |
3. trans. To keep (a fact or matter) from the knowledge or observation of others; to keep close or secret.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 199 We hudeð liðere sinnen on us. a 1300 Cursor M. 1107 Þis ded had euer i-wis ben hidd, If god him-self ne had it kydd. 1382 Wyclif Prov. x. 14 Wise men hiden kunnyng. c 1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 61 The place of hir sepulture was hydde from knowleche of cristen puple an hundert ȝeere and thrytty. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon lxxxiii. 261 He coude haue no power to hyde or couer the trouth. 1690 Gt. Scanderbeg 92 The Sultan..being defeated, hided Arianissa's condition. 1771 E. Griffith tr. Viaud's Shipwreck 130 Protect my mother; hide from her the condition I am reduced to. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iv. vii, He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide. |
4. To keep from view (without implication of intention); to prevent from being seen; to obstruct the view of; to cover up.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iii. metr. viii. 64 (Camb. MS.) The cauernes of the see I-hyd in flodes. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. ii. (1495) 103 Heer well dysposyd..hydyth and defendyth the hede. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 487 Vndir cloude yhid the mone. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 45 Where the Grasse would so soone growe, as it woulde hide a staffe in a day. 1610 Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 86 The Iuy which had hid my princely Trunck. 1709 Berkeley Th. Vision §79 His thumb, with which he might hide a tower, or hinder its being seen. 1810 Vince Elem. Astron. xxi. 229 A few seconds before the sun was totally hid. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. v. 48 Littleton Island is before us, hiding Cape Hatherton. |
▪ V. hide, v.2
[f. hide n.1]
1. trans. To remove the hide from; to flay. rare.
| 1757 W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 41 They are neither sufficiently blooded, nor dressed in any tolerable manner more than hiding. |
2. To beat the hide or skin of; to flog, thrash. (See also hiding vbl. n.2) slang or colloq.
| 1825 Brockett, Hide, to beat. ‘I'll hide your jacket.’ a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Hide, to thresh; to curry the hide. 1875 Buckland Log-bk. 169 The cause of my being hided and flogged so often at school. |
▪ VI. † hide, v.3 Obs. rare.
[f. hide n.2]
trans. To fix the number of hides in (a piece of land).
| 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 400 The land belonging to this towne was never hided. |