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To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations. I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch. Shak.

A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place. " The fox has gone to holt." C. Kingsley.

A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [Obs.] Hammond.

pery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.

A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.

A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding. Blackstone.

A lying in concealment; hiding. [Obs.]

Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [Colloq.] [Written also meaching and meeching.]

The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

ssion of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope.

ate or cut off from inconvience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill. They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high comands. Macaulay.

To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

ft ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. I muself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak.

erious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times. -- To pin, or hang, on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.

To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. Walton.

harge a cannon. Four charged two, and two surcharged one. Spenser. Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew. Dryden.