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Hide(medicine)
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HIDE, measures(law)

hide(1) (iou)



hide noun1.
[Old English hd = Old Frisian hed, Old Saxon hud (Dutch huid), Old High German hut (German Haut), Old Norse hue, from Germanic from Indo-European whence also Latin cutis, Greek kutos.]
The skin of an animal, raw or dressed; esp. (a) skin (as of one of the larger animals) which may be tanned into leather. OE.
C. Freeman The hides were sold for four dollars a skin to a tannery.
The human skin. Now joc. OE.
Henry Miller Huge spiked thongs that will flay the living hide off you.
b. fig. Impudence, effrontery, nerve. Chiefly Austral. & NZ. E20.
(A piece of) animal hide used as material for clothing, shoes, etc. ME.
A whip made of animal hide. M19.
Phrases & comb.: hide and hue skin and complexion; the visible outer part of the body. hide beetle = leather beetle s.v. LEATHER noun & adjective. neither hide nor hair (of someone) nothing whatever (of someone). save one's hide, save one's own hide: see SAVE verb. tan a person's hide thrash or flog a person.
hided adjective (a) having a hide, esp. of a specified kind; (b) rare made of twisted hide: LME.
hideless adjective LME.