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Word Meanings - HIDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. There was the hiding of his power. Hab. iii. 4.

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  • SHIRKER
    One who shirks. Macaulay.
  • HIDROSIS
    Excretion of sweat; perspiration. 2. Excessive perspiration; also, any skin disease characterized by abnormal perspiration.
  • HIDALGO
    A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class. (more info) something; hijo son + algo something, fr. L.
  • HIDAGE
    A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
  • HIDING
    The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. There was the hiding of his power. Hab. iii. 4.
  • HIDROTIC
    Causing perspiration; diaphoretic or sudorific.
  • HIDDEN
    from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves , consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave. Syn. -- Hidden,
  • SHIRK
    1. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves. Bp. Rainbow. 2. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying
  • HIDEOUS
    hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egidi horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
  • HIDDENLY
    In a hidden manner.
  • HIDEBOUND
    Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having
  • HID
    imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.
  • SKULK
    To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked
  • DELITESCENCE
    The sudden disappearance of inflammation. (more info) 1. Concealment; seclusion; retirement. The delitescence of mental activities. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • SKULKINGLY
    In a skulking manner.
  • SHIRKY
    Disposed to shirk.
  • HIDER
    One who hides or conceals.
  • SKULK; SKULKER
    One who, or that which, skulks.
  • HIDE
    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. Matt. v. 15. If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid. Shak. 2. To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to
  • HIDDENITE
    An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.
  • GLOCHIDIUM
    The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
  • SYLPHID
    A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. "The place of the sylphid queen." J. R. Drake. Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope.
  • CHIDESTER
    A female scold.
  • RACHIDIAN
    Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
  • ORCHIDEOUS
    See ORCHIDACEOUS
  • XANTHIDE
    A compound or derivative of xanthogen.
  • APHIDOPHAGOUS
    Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.
  • CHIDER
    One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
  • TERSULPHIDE
    A trisulphide.
  • COWHIDE
    1. The hide of a cow. 2. Leather made of the hide of a cow. 3. A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
  • BUSHIDO
    The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan. Unformulated, Bushido was and still is the animating spirit, the motor force of our country. Inazo Nitobé.
  • ORCHIDOLOGY
    The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
  • DIDELPHID
    See DIDELPHIC
  • OXYSULPHIDE
    A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.
  • SESQUISULPHIDE
    A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.
  • AMPHID
    A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound. Berzelius.

 

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