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verb

Hide v. t. (past hid; past part. hidden; pres. part. hiding)

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."

To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate."

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 hiding) To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.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.

The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.

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

... felt at the same time to be incapable of bestowing sympathy or counsel. It is indeed, perhaps, the wife and mother who is the best loved who will at the same time be made the most deeply to feel her powerlessness to appreciate, to advise, or to guide: the very anxiety to hide from her that it is the society, the opinion, and the sympathy of others which is really valued, because it alone can be appreciative, will make her only the more sensibly aware that she is deficient in the leading qualities that ...

— The Young Lady's Mentor - A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends • A Lady

... hardly could the eye reach it. And I turned me to the Sea of all wisdom; I said, "This one, what says it? and what answers that other fire? and who are they that make it?" And he to me, "Upon the foul waves already thou mayest discern that which is expected, if the fume of the marsh hide it not from thee." ...

— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri

... vice was effectually removed. Nothing ungenerous or unclean was said in his presence without incurring his displeasure, always unmistakably expressed, and although he made no parade of his piety he was far too manly to hide it. ...

— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... to the roof of her mouth; the solid earth spun round and round. "Geoffrey killed! Geoffrey killed!" she cried in her heart; but though her ears seemed to hear the sound of them, no words came from her lips. "Oh, what should she do? Where should she hide herself ...

— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard

... never—because I don't want to, and because nothing will induce me. So they may do as they like. But I've worked for them ALL" She uttered this last with another irrepressible quaver, and the next moment her tears had come, though she had, with the explosion, quitted her husband as if to hide it from him. She passed into the dusky drawing-room, where, during his own prowl, shortly previous, he had drawn up a blind, so that the light of the street-lamps came in a little at the window. She ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

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