to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?
2.
to obstruct the view of; cover up: The sun was hidden by the clouds.
3.
to conceal from knowledge or exposure; keep secret: to hide one's feelings.
verb (used without object)
4.
to conceal oneself; lie concealed: He hid in the closet.
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Hidedis always a great word to know.
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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
Verb phrase
6.
hide out, to go into or remain in hiding: After breaking out of jail, he hid out in a deserted farmhouse.
Origin: before 900; Middle English hiden,Old English hȳdan; cognate with Old Frisian hūda,Greek keúthein to conceal
Related forms
hid·a·ble, adjective
hid·a·bil·i·ty, noun
hid·er, noun
Synonyms 1. screen, mask, cloak, veil, shroud, disguise. Hide,conceal,secrete mean to put out of sight or in a secret place. Hide is the general word: to hide one's money or purpose; A dog hides a bone. Conceal, somewhat more formal, is to cover from sight: A rock concealed them from view. Secrete means to put away carefully, in order to keep secret: The spy secreted the important papers. 3. disguise, dissemble, suppress.
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.
Australiaand New ZealandInformal. 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: before 900; Middle English; Old English hȳd; cognate with Dutch huid,Old Norse hūth,Danish, Swedish hud,Old High German hūt (German Haut), Latin cutis skin, cutis; see hide1
"measure of land" (obsolete), O.E. hid, earlier higid, from hiw- "family" (cf. hiwan "household," hiwo "a husband, master of a household"), from PIE *keiwo- (cf. L. civis "citizen"). The notion was of "amount of land needed to feed one free family and dependents," usually 100 or 120 acres, but the amount
n. the skin. : I need to get some rays on my hide.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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