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(ha
d) Pa. tense hid; pa. pple. hid, hidden (
hd(
)n). Forms: 1 hýdan, (3rd sing. hýt), hídan, 3-4 hude (ü), (3rd sing. hitt, hut, hit), 3-5 huide, huyde, 3- hide, (4-5 hid(d, hyd, 6 hyed). pa. tense. 
. 1 hýdde, hídde, 2-4 hudde, 3-6 hidde, etc., (5 hude), 4- hid. 
. 5 hidded, 5-7 hided. pa. pple. . 1 hýded, hídd, 2-4 ihud(de, 4-5 yhud(de, -hid(de, -hyd, (y)hed(de, i-hid, -hydd, hud, 4-6 hidd(e, etc., 4- hid. . 6 hyden, 6- hidden. [OE. hýdan = MDu. hûden (huyden, hueden), MLG. hûden to hide, LG. (ver)hüen:
OTeut. *hûdjan, variously referred to the root of OE. hýd, HIDE n.1, and to a pre-Teut. *keudh-, kudh-, seen in Gr. 
to hide, cover up, conceal. The late pa. pple. hidden is after strong vbs., e.g. ride, ridden.]
1. a. trans. To put or keep out of sight; to conceal intentionally from the view or notice of others; to conceal from discovery, to secrete. Freq. in phr. to hide away. Also const. up. (Cf. sense 2b.)
c897 K. ÆLFRED Gregory's Past. xxvi. 184 Swæ se læce hyt his isern
wi
one mon
e he
snian wile.
c1132 O.E. Chron. an. 963 [He] fand
a hidde in
a ealde wealle writes
et Headda abb heafde ær
ewriton.
a1200 Moral Ode 28 Al to muchel ich habbe ispent, to litel ihud in horde.
c1250 Gen. & Ex. 352
o gunen he same sriden, And limes in leues hiden.
a1300 Cursor M. 3677 (Cott.) Wit a rugh skin sco hidd his hals.
c1340 Ibid. 910 (Trin.)
ou wommon..shalt haue euer
i heed hud.
1486 Bk. St. Albans Eivb, In moore or in moos he hidyth hem fast.
1490 CAXTON Eneydos xxiv. 89 She hidded the swerde.
1600 J. PORY tr.
Leo's Africa II. 32, I had no leisure to hide away my coine from them.
1646 FULLER Wounded Consc. (1841) 339 Our English proverb saith, he that hath hid can find.
1770 Junius Lett. xxxvi. 177 Retire, then..and hide your blushes from the world.
1854 W. COLLINS Hide & Seek III. xxiii. 227, I shall find him! I don't care where he's hid away from me.
Ibid. xxiv. 271 She..hid it away in her bosom.
1875 EMERSON Lett. & Soc. Aims, Eloq. Wks. (Bohn) III. 190 Mothers hid their sons, and wives their husbands..lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
1884 ‘MARK TWAIN’ Huck. Finn xxiv. 241 It's reckoned he left three or four thousand in cash hid up som'ers.
1891 C. GRAVES Field of Tares 109 There was a fresh canvas upon the easel, the tattered one had been carefully hidden away.
1928 E. W
ALLACE Flying Squad xvi. 169 Bradley's fond of her. He hid her up once: why shouldn't he hide her up again?
1948 ‘N. SHUTE’ No Highway vi. 168 It was impossible to hide up evidence like that.
b. To conceal so as to shield or protect. Obs.
a1300 E.E. Psalter xxx. 21 [xxxi. 20] (Mätz.)
ou salt am hide Fra fordrovinges of men.
1382 WYCLIF Ps. xxvi[i]. 5 He hidde me in his tabernacle in the day of euelis.
1535 COVERDALE Ps. lxiii[i]. 2 Hyde me from the gatheringe together of y
e frowarde.
1614 BP. HALL Recoll. Treat. 422 Many..having nothing but a cote of thatch to hide them from heauen.
c. to hide one's face: (a) in Biblical language, to turn away or withdraw one's eyes, take no heed. (Also to hide one's ear, oneself.) (b) = sense 1d(b) below.
1382 WYCLIF Job xiii. 24 Whi thi face thou hidist, and demest me thin enemy?
1560 B
IBLE (Genev.)
Ps. xxx. 7 Thou didest hide thy face, and I was troubled.
Isa. i. 15 When you shal stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you.
1611 B
IBLE Lam. iii. 56 Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
1780 COWPER Table T. 422 When Avarice starves (and never hides his face) Two or three millions of the human race.
d. to hide one's head: (a) to protect one's head, to shelter oneself, take shelter; (b) to keep out of sight, keep from shame or discomfiture.
c1400 Apol. Loll. 40 Pore He was, for He had not were to hied His heuid.
a1529 SKELTON Howe the douty Duke 185 Crepe into your caues Your heedes for to hyde.
1563 W. FULKE Meteors (1640) 57 Some Rivers there be, that hide their heads under the Earth, and..far off, breake out againe.
1590 SPENSER F.Q. I. ii. 18 But yet I warne thee now..hide thy head.
1593 SHAKES. Rich. II,
III. iii. 6 Richard, not farre from hence, hath hid his head.
1667,
1840 [see
DIMINISHED 2].
1778 A. HAMILTON Wks. (1886) VII. 539, I believe it [a faction] unmasked its batteries too soon, and begins to hide its head.
e. all hid: the signal cry in hide-and-seek; hence, an early name of the game itself. Obs.
1588 SHAKES. L.L.L. IV. iii. 78 All hid, all hid, an old infant play.
1602 DEKKER Satirom. (N.), Cries all hid, as boys do.
1607 TOURNEUR Rev. Trag. III. v. Wks. 1878 II. 82 A lady can At such all-hid beguile a wiser man.
1632 SHERWOOD, All hidde,
jeu, où vn se cache pour estre trouvé des autres.
2. refl. and intr. a. refl. To put or keep oneself out of sight, or to conceal oneself.
c897 K. ÆLFRED Gregory's Past. xv. 88 Ge
fleo, &
hyda eow.
c1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) ciii. 21 Hi on holum
hyda hi
eorne.
c1200 ORMIN 13736
e
bae hemm hiddenn sone anan.
c1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3410
ey nadde no tome for to fle, Ne place to huyden hem priue.
c1386 CHAUCER Sqr.'s T. 504 Right as a serpent hit hym vnder floures Til he may seen his tyme for to byte.
1489 CAXTON Faytes of A. II. iii. 94 They hided hem self within the thykke busshes.
1548 HALL Chron., Hen. IV 13b, Lurkyng and hidyng him selfe in privy places.
1639 T. B
RUGIS tr.
Camus' Mor. Relat. 255 The blade hides it selfe in the handle.
1879 F. T. POLLOK Sport Brit. Burmah I. 116 Tigers have a wonderful knack of hiding themselves.
b. intr. To conceal oneself. Also with up.
hide fox and all after: a cry formerly uttered in the game of hide-and-seek, when one player hides and the rest seek him. Cf. 1e.
c1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8864 On
he and hilles to hyde in hulk.
c1340 Cursor M. 16742 (Trin.)
e lit bigan to hyde.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. st. 808 Where ever he satte, stode, or hude.
1602 SHAKES. Ham. IV. ii. 32 Hide Fox, and all after [cf.
HIDE-
AND-
SEEK 1].
1774 GOLDSM. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 199 The recesses in which she ultimately hides.
1872 J. E. T
AYLOR Half Hours in Green Lanes (1877) 108 The slightest sound would cause them to hide up.
c. to hide out: to go into hiding; to hide from the authorities. U.S.
1884 J. C. HARRIS Mingo 124 The revenue fellers better not git too clost ter Hog Mountain, bekaze the hidin'-out bizness is done played.
1885 ‘C. E. CRADDOCK’ Prophet Gt. Smoky Mts. ii. 44 Loneliness had made his sensibilities tender and ‘hiding out’ affected his spirits more than dodging the officers.
1911 R. D. SAUNDERS Col. Todhunter i. 19 You got to hide out when that word is delivered, suh.
1924 F. R. B
ECHDOLT Tales Old-Timers 345 A man..could hide out and hold up his herd.
1969 C. F. BURKE God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 25 So he tries to find a pad where he can hide out.
3. trans. To keep (a fact or matter) from the knowledge or observation of others; to keep close or secret.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 199 We
hude liere sinnen on us.
a1300 Cursor M. 1107
is ded had euer i-wis ben hidd, If god him-self ne had it kydd.
1382 WYCLIF Prov. x. 14 Wise men hiden kunnyng.
c1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 61 The place of hir sepulture was hydde from knowleche of cristen puple an hundert
eere and thrytty.
a1533 LD. BERNERS Huon lxxxiii. 261 He coude haue no power to hyde or couer the trouth.
1690 Gt. Scanderbeg 92 The Sultan..being defeated, hided Arianissa's condition.
1771 E. GRIFFITH tr.
Viaud's Shipwreck 130 Protect my mother; hide from her the condition I am reduced to.
1837 CARLYLE Fr. Rev. II.
IV. vii, He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
4. To keep from view (without implication of intention); to prevent from being seen; to obstruct the view of; to cover up.
c1374 CHAUCER Boeth. III. metr. viii. 64 (Camb. MS.) The cauernes of the see I-hyd in flodes.
1398 TREVISA Barth. De P.R. V. ii. (1495) 103 Heer well dysposyd..hydyth and defendyth the hede.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. IV. 487 Vndir cloude yhid the mone.
1577 B. GOOGE Heresbach's Husb. I. (1586) 45 Where the Grasse would so soone growe, as it woulde hide a staffe in a day.
1610 SHAKES. Temp. I. ii. 86 The Iuy which had hid my princely Trunck.
1709 BERKELEY Th. Vision §79 His thumb, with which he might hide a tower, or hinder its being seen.
1810 VINCE Elem. Astron. xxi. 229 A few seconds before the sun was totally hid.
1856 KANE Arct. Expl. I. v. 48 Littleton Island is before us, hiding Cape Hatherton.
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