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Hide   /haɪd/   Listen
verb
Hide  v. t.  (past hid; past part. hidden; pres. part. hiding)  
1.
To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. "A city that is set on an hill can not be hid." "If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid."
2.
To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate."
3.
To remove from danger; to shelter. "In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion."
To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself."
To hide the face, to withdraw favor. "Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled."
To hide the face from.
(a)
To overlook; to pardon. "Hide thy face from my sins."
(b)
To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with.
Synonyms: To conceal; secrete; disguise; dissemble; screen; cloak; mask; veil. See Conceal.



Hide  v. t.  (past & past part. hided; pres. part. hiding)  To flog; to whip. (Prov. Eng. & Low, U. S.)



Hide  v. i.  (past hid; past part. hidden; pres. part. hiding)  To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation. "Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide."
Hide and seek, a play of children, in which some hide themselves, and others seek them.



noun
Hide  n.  (O. Eng. Law.)
(a)
An abode or dwelling.
(b)
A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres. (Written also hyde)



Hide  n.  
1.
The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
2.
The human skin; so called in contempt. "O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!"






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"Hide" Quotes from Famous Books



... Marquise de Bois l'Hery, confronts the more than modest toilette of some artist's wife or daughter; while the model who posed for that beautiful Andromeda at the entrance, goes by victoriously, clad in too short a skirt, in wretched garments that hide her beauty beneath all the false lines of fashion. People observe, admire, criticise each other, exchange glances contemptuous, disdainful, or curious, interrupted suddenly at the passage of a celebrity, ...
— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... in her place and to think what she would do to hide the seal ring. The idea of embedding it in a ball of the wax occurred to me. But, having done this, what would she do with the ball? It was not an easy thing to hide; in her purse, her satchel, it ...
— The Film of Fear • Arnold Fredericks

... growing brain, and hence the memory-images of them, on account of their vividness, can not always be surely distinguished from the perceptions themselves. Most of the plays that children invent of themselves may be referred to this fact; on the other hand, the play of hide-and-seek (especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth months), and, nearly allied to this, the hunting after scraps of paper, bits of biscuit, buttons, and other favorite objects (in the fifteenth month), constitute an ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

... Tom Ingoldsby, in the enthusiasm of the moment, became so lost in the material world, that, in his abstraction, he unwarily laid his hand on the cock of the urn. Quivering with emotion, he gave it such an unlucky twist, that the full stream of its scalding contents descended on the gingerbread hide of the unlucky Cupid. The confusion was complete; the whole economy of the table disarranged—the company broke up in most admired disorder—and "vulgar minds will never know" anything more of Miss Simpkinson's ode till they peruse it ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough

... woman closed the window. It was as well; Watson was only human, and he could hide his curiosity just so long and no longer. He turned ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint


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