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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To put or keep out of sight; secrete.
2. v. To prevent the disclosure or recognition of; conceal: tried to hide the facts.
3. v. To cut off from sight; cover up: Clouds hid the stars.
4. v. To avert (one's gaze), especially in shame or grief.
5. v. To keep oneself out of sight.
6. v. To seek refuge.
7. hide out To be in hiding, as from a pursuer: The gangsters hid out in a remote cabin until it was safe to return to the city.
8. n. The skin of an animal, especially the thick tough skin or pelt of a large animal.
9. v. To beat severely; flog.
10. idiom. hide nor hair A trace; a vestige: haven't seen hide nor hair of them since the argument.
11. n. An old English measure of land, usually the amount held adequate for one free family and its dependents.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To conceal from sight; prevent from being seen; cover up: as, to hide one's face; to hide a stain or a scar.
2. To conceal from discovery; secrete; put in a place of security or safety: as, to hide money.
3. To conceal from knowledge or cognizance; keep secret; hold back from avowal or disclosure; suppress: as, to hide one's feelings.
4. To withdraw; withhold; turn aside or away.
5. Synonyms Secrete, etc. (see conceal); screen, cover, cloak, veil, shroud, mask, disguise, suppress, dissemble.
6. To withdraw from sight; lie concealed; keep one's self out of view.
7. n. The skin of an animal, especially of one of the larger animals: as, the hide of a calf; the thick hide of a rhinoceros.
8. n. An animal's skin stripped from its body and used as a material for leather or in other ways: as, a raw hide; a dressed hide; in the leather trade, specifically, the skin of a large animal, as an ox or a horse, as distiuguished from Kips, which are the skins of small or yearling cattle, and skins, which are those of smaller animals, as calves, sheep, goats, seals, etc.
9. n. The human skin: now in a derogatory sense.
10. n. Synonyms Pelt, etc. See skin, n.
11. To cover with or as with hide.
12. To beat; flog; thrash.
13. n. In old English law, a holding of land, the allotment of one tenant; a portion of land considered to be sufficient for the support of one family, but varying in extent in every district according to local custom and the quality of the soil, hence variously estimated at 60, 80, and 100 acres, or more. It might also include house, wood, meadow, and pasture necessary for the maintenance of the plowman and oxen. See villeinage.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
2. v. intransitive To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
3. n. countable The skin of an animal.
4. n. countable (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
5. n. uncountable, informal One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
6. v. To beat with a whip made from hide.
7. n. A medieval land measure equal to the amount of land that could sustain one free family; usually 100 acres. Forty hides equalled a barony.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
2. v. To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.
3. v. To remove from danger; to shelter.
4. v. To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.
5. n. An abode or dwelling.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. n. The human skin; -- so called in contempt.
9. v. Prov. Eng. & Low, U. S. To flog; to whip.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. body covering of a living animal
2. v. be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety
3. v. prevent from being seen or discovered
4. v. cover as if with a shroud
5. v. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
6. n. the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)