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hide nor hair

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hide

2  [hahyd] noun, verb, hid⋅ed, hid⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the pelt or skin of one of the larger animals (cow, horse, buffalo, etc.), raw or dressed.
2. Informal.
a. the skin of a human being: Get out of here or I'll tan your hide!
b. safety or welfare: He's only worried about his own hide.
3. Australia and New Zealand Informal. impertinence; impudence.
–verb (used with object)
4. Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
5. to protect (a rope, as a boltrope of a sail) with a covering of leather.
—Idiom
6. hide nor hair, a trace or evidence, as of something missing: They didn't find hide nor hair of the murder weapon. Also, hide or hair.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hȳd; c. D huid, ON hūth, Dan, Sw hud, OHG hūt (G Haut), L cutis skin, cutis; see hide 1

Related forms:
hideless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See skin.
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hide 2   (hīd)   
n.  The skin of an animal, especially the thick tough skin or pelt of a large animal.
tr.v.   hid·ed, hid·ing, hides
To beat severely; flog.

[Middle English, from Old English hȳd; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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