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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Located at or forming the back or rear; posterior: an animal's hind legs; the hinder part of a steer.
2. n. A female red deer.
3. n. Any of several fishes of the genus Epinephelus of Atlantic waters, related to and resembling the groupers.
4. n. Chiefly British A farm laborer, especially a skilled worker.
5. n. Archaic A country bumpkin; a rustic.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The female of the red deer or stag in and after its third year: correlative to hart for the male.
2. n. One of various fishes of the family Serranidæ and genus Epinephelus, as E. drummond-hayi, a grouper of the Gulf coast of the United States.
3. n. A laboring man attached to a household; an agricultural laborer; a peasant; a farm-servant; a rustic.
4. Pertaining to, constituting, or including the rear or posterior extremity, as of a body or an object; backward; posterior: opposed to fore: as, the hind toe of a bird; the hind feet of a horse; the hind part of an animal.
5. An abbreviation of Hindu, Hindustan, and Hindustani. In the etymologies of this dictionary it stands only for Hindustani.
6. n. A small bass-like fish, Cephalopholis cruentalis, of the family Serranidæ, found in the West Indies. Those found in deep waters are red, and are known as red hinds; those found near the shore are dark brown, and are known as brown hinds.

Wiktionary

1. n. archaic A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
2. adj. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
3. n. A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
2. n. (Zoöl.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as Epinephelus apua of Bermuda, and Epinephelus Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind.
3. n. obsolete A domestic; a servant.
4. n. engraving A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant.
5. adj. In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a female deer, especially an adult female red deer
2. adj. located at or near the back of an animal
3. n. any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers