DEFINITION
HIDE:
• (v. t.) To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to
secrete.
• (v. t.) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain
from avowing or confessing.
• (v. t.) To remove from danger; to shelter.
• (v. i.) To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be
withdrawn from sight or observation.
• (n.) An abode or dwelling.
• (n.) 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.
• (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.
• (n.) The human skin; -- so called in contempt.
• (v. t.) To flog; to whip.