hid

See also: HID and híd

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭd, IPA^(key): /hɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

hid

1. simple past of hide
2. (archaic) past participle of hide
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:17:

     Foꝛ nothing is ſecret, that ſhall not be made manifeſt: neither any thing hid, that ſhall not be knowen, and come abꝛoad.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 6:

     Oh! here it is. I was sure it could not be far off; but I had put my huswife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid, but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table.

   • 1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English‎^[1], volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:

     To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.

Anagrams

• HDI

Danish

Adverb

hid

1. (archaic) hither, to here, towards this place

Synonyms

• hertil

Coordinate terms

• did, der

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hid

1. Alternative form of hide (“concealment”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hid

1. Alternative form of hit (“it”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hid (plural hides)

1. Alternative form of hyde (“skin”)

Etymology 4

Noun

hid

1. Alternative form of hythe (“landing place, port”)

Etymology 5

Verb

hid (third-person singular simple present hideth, present participle hidende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hidde)

1. Alternative form of hiden (“to hide”)

Verb

hid

1. Alternative form of hideth: third-person singular present of hiden
2. Alternative form of hidde: simple past/past participle of hiden

Etymology 6

Verb

hid

1. Alternative form of hyed: simple past/past participle of hyen