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hidebound, a. (n.)|ˈhaɪdbaʊnd|
[f. hide n.1 in locative relation + bound ppl. a.2: cf. tongue-tied.]
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1. Of cattle: Having the skin clinging closely to the back and ribs so that it cannot be loosened or raised with the fingers, as a result of bad feeding and consequent emaciation.
1559[see B.]. 1600Holland Livy xxi. xl. 415 Their horses, no other than lame jades and poor hide-bound hildings. 1681Otway Soldier's Fort. v. i, I had rather my Ox should graze in a Field of my own, than live hide-bound upon the common. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1877) 362 A hide-bound bull is going to be killed.
2. Of human beings: Having the skin tight and incapable of extension.
1599Broughton's Let. v. 17 An Archilochus leane and hidebound with hart-fretting enuie. 1624Quarles Div. Poems, Job (1717) 196 My bones are hide-bound. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lii. (1737) 209 This did not make me..Hide-bound and Costive. 1895W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia iii. 21 They [the children] had not the hide-bound, hunger-pinched appearance of the children of Yabroud.
fig.a1613Overbury A Wife (1638) 113 And till he eat a schooleman, he is hide-bound. a1641Suckling Poems (1646) 8 His Muse was hydebound. 1863Mrs. Gaskell Sylvia's L. I. 55 Always ease an uneasy heart, and never let it get hidebound.
3. Of trees, etc.: Having the bark so closely adherent and unyielding as to impede growth.
1626Bacon Sylva §545 If Trees be Hide-bound, they wax lesse Fruitfull, and gather Mosse. 1727Pope Macer 11 Like stunted hide-bound Trees, that just have got Sufficient sap at once to bear and rot. 1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 27 No part of it appears stunted or hidebound.
fig.a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 306 Hitherto the English pale had been hide-bound in the growth thereof, having not gained one foot of ground in more than two hundred years.
4. transf. and fig. Of persons, their minds, etc.: Restricted in view or scope; narrow; cramped; hence, bigoted, obstinately set in opinion.
1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 82 [To] intrinsicate into the maior of the matter, with such hide-bound reasons. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 57 To blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humor which he calls his judgement. 1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 21 And still the harsher and hide-bounder The Damsels prove, become the fonder. 1724R. Welton Subst. Chr. Faith. 27 No narrow hide-bound mind that can only love and seek its own self. 1886Stevenson Dr. Jekyll iii. (ed. 2) 31 An excellent fellow..but a hide-bound pedant for all that.
†b. Close-fisted, stingy, niggardly. Obs.
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. v. iv, The neighbours praisen Villio's hidebound son. 1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady iii. ii, There's nothing in that hide-bound usurer. 1683Situation of Paradise 73 (T.) Cares and sleepless nights tormented with continual lashings a hidebound miser.
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5. Having an edging or binding of hide.
1858W. Ellis 3 Vis. Madagascar xii. 336 The hard-wooded and hide-bound shields of the attacking party afforded no protection.
†B. n. The diseases affecting cattle and trees, described above in 1, 3. Obs.
1559Cooper Thesaurus, Coriago, the sickenesse of cattall when they are clounge, that their skynnes dooe cleve fast to their bodies, hyde bounde. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 61 Oxen are also much troubled with a disease called the Hide-bound. 1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 132. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Hide-bound..is a disease whereunto Trees..by the cleaving of the Bark, are subject. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict., Hide-Bound, a Disease in Horses, when the Skin sticks so fast to their Backs and Ribs, that you cannot pull it from the Flesh with your Hands. |