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.