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A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land. [Written also hydage.]

from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves (Mus.), consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave.

To hide. See Hele. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

State; condition. [Obs.] How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood Spenser.

To cover; to hide. [Obs.] Shak.

Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. A dungeon horrible on all sides round. Milton.

The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney.

Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. Not in the legions Of horrid hell. Shak. The horrid things they say. Pope.

To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. You must not presume to huff us. Echard.

A hydrosulphide. [Archaic]

Combined with hydrogen sulphide.

nd sulphur; as, hydrosulphuricacid, a designation applied to the solution of hydrogen sulphide in water.

(a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc.

To conceal, as in bushes; to hide. [Obs.] Shelton.

Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.

To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [Obs.]

The effect of anger; punishment. Shak. Hide thyself . . . until the indignation be overpast. Is. xxvi. 20.

To hide in a shell. [Obs.] Shak.

time intervening; interval between events, etc. All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. Shak.