(v. t.) To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
(v. t.) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.
(v. t.) To remove from danger; to shelter.
(v. i.) To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.
(n.) An abode or dwelling.
(n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres.
(n.) The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
(n.) The human skin; -- so called in contempt.
(v. t.) To flog; to whip.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) In the US where laws over the use of cannabis or possession of class-A drugs can be wildly different between states, it also made it easier to hide from the law.
(3) Their only clues were two statements involving contrasting mental terms, with each statement referring to one of the possible hiding places.
(4) If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and – importantly – accept the consequences of his actions.” “He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers – not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime.
(5) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
(6) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
(7) What else is government hiding from us – and when will it kill us?
(8) TV's Jeremy Paxman didn't even bother hiding his disdain for the introduction of weather reports to Newsnight – "It's April.
(9) Governments should commit to including PPPs in national accounts and stop hiding their true cost.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Table corals provide an excellent hiding place for smaller fish.
(11) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".
(12) When multiple database systems are present, a flexible front end can provide sophisticated querying capabilities that bridge the systems, while hiding the complexities of the multiple systems from the user.
(13) He hadn't seen his children very much even before he went to prison because he was always busy running around, hiding underground.
(14) Inspection hides poor practice, and companies become more concerned with the regulator than with residents and relatives.
(15) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(16) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(17) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(18) In fact, he's a rampant homophobe, which usually suggests someone might actually be a teeny bit gay and trying to hide it – but he isn't, at all.
(19) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
(20) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.
Hidebound
Definition:
(a.) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
(a.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
(a.) Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
(a.) Niggardly; penurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osborne would like some of that conservative approach imported into the UK, while at the same time ensuring that the banks are not so hidebound by new capital requirements that credit is choked off.
(2) Whether it is a fault of Britain's hidebound business environment or a reflection of where Branson sees a money-making opportunity, many of the tycoon's UK ventures have involved close interaction with the government of the day, from seeking ministerial backing for Heathrow landing slots to buying Northern Rock from the state for £747m.
(3) The Tory government, and the business secretary in particular, are so hidebound by their restrictive economic orthodoxy that they have allowed this problem to fester and they are even now reluctant to do what is necessary to save our steel industry.
(4) The all too obvious danger is that the Burmese military, fearful of losing its privileges, hidebound by a narrow view of national security, and feeling it has already achieved its aim of balancing strong Chinese influence by bringing other countries into play, will sideline or discard her.
(5) Rather, they had the appearance of old, hidebound minds, flipping between strident arrogance and looking as if they are scared out of their wits: no friends of the brave, fragile people at the cutting edge of the economy, who will just have to toil on regardless.
(6) In reality, he has broken with tradition by accepting scores of urgent questions (and there was another one on Monday, too) to fulfil his promise of making sure that parliament is not too hidebound by procedures to debate live issues of controversy.
(7) Extrapulmonary thoracic restriction ("hidebound chest") has not been previously reported to complicate EF.
(8) But I won't hold my breath in expectation that such a hidebound industry will wake up on this.
(9) For 70 years now, this network and its orchestras have been more innovative and less hidebound than their reputations deserve.
(10) Such is what passes for “accountability” in the hidebound, medieval and largely self-serving Catholic hierarchy.
(11) One of the most striking clinical findings has been scleroderma-like skin disease manifesting as diffuse fasciitis or hidebound induration.
(12) These studies indicate that the major defect responsible for the hidebound skin lesions of scleroderma may be decreased collagenase activity.
(13) Balls and his team deserve credit for moving into territory that more hidebound Labour people must find rather uncomfortable.
(14) South Africa did not return to the Olympics – or to other international sporting competition, once even the hidebound likes of rugby and cricket had cottoned on – until 1992, when apartheid fell.
(15) That is wrong.” Varoufakis, who has described himself as an “accidental economist”, is the first to say he is not hidebound by ideology.
(16) So it may be a surprise that the first signs of resistance to Trump’s program are from that famously cautious, hidebound institution, the Federal Reserve .
(17) Your audience will expect a) lots of Sky-at-20 propaganda; b) criticisms of hidebound regulators; c) mockery of ITV; d) mockery of pay-TV rivals; e) praise of the free market as on the side of consumers.
(18) "Because of where he's come from, he's not hidebound by the conventions of contemporary film-making.
(19) The big labor unions have been fighting their hidebound reputations, but with their falling membership rolls they’ve needed to recruit warm bodies.
(20) Affected neonatal calves were unable to rise and had intention tremors, hidebound skin, slightly domed calvaria, slight prognathism, and narrow palpebral fissures.