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▪ I. hiding, vbl. n.1|ˈhaɪdɪŋ|
[f. hide v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. hide1, lit. and fig.; the condition of being hidden; concealment. (Often in phr. in hiding, Sc. under hiding.)
a1225Ancr. R. 174 Iþisse worde, Hester, beoð hudunge & heinesse boðe iueied togederes. c1290Beket 1355 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 145 In huydinge ase þei it were. c1400Rom. Rose 6712 Sothfastnesse wole none hidyngis. 1560Bible (Genev.) Hab. iii. 4 There was the hiding of his power. 1656Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. (1851) 47 If our light be seen, it matters not for our hiding. 1814Scott Wav. lxxii, A gentleman who was ‘in hiding’ after the battle of Culloden. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. viii. (1857) 116 When under hiding, word was brought him that she lay sick of a fever. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. x. II. 612 The Popish priests, indeed, were in exile, in hiding, or in prison. 1890Besant Demoniac ii. 27 A man..who has to go away into hiding every month or so.
2. Something that hides; a means of concealment; a hiding-place.
1382Wyclif Heb. ix. 3 Aftir the veil, or hydyng, the secunde tabernacle. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xlvii. (1869) 160, I..seche hydinges and corneres. 1611Bible Deut. xxxii. 38 Let them rise up..and be your protection [marg. an hiding for you]. 1859G. W. Dasent Tales fr. Norse 94 Then he rode off with it to the hiding, where he kept the other two.
†3. Something hidden; pl. secrets. Obs. rare.
a1325Prose Psalter xliii. 23 [xliv. 21] He knewe þe hidynges of þe hert.
4. attrib. and Comb., as hiding-hole; † hiding-cloth, a curtain or veil; hiding power, the capacity of paint or other colouring materials to obliterate certain surfaces. Also hiding-place.
c1275Passion Our Lord 480 in O.E. Misc. 50 Þat huding⁓cloþ to-delde in þe temple a to. 1611Cotgr., Cache,..a hiding hole, hidden corner. c1731Swift Storm 69 Else some hiding hole he seeks. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xviii, The more drawers and closets there were, the more hiding-holes could Dinah make. 1951R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. 433 Hiding power, degree of opacity in a paint or pigment; ability to mask or conceal an underpainting. The term covering power is sometimes confused with it. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 79/1 Hiding power, the power of an opaque dye or other colouring material, when applied to hair, to cover or hide its existing colour. 1967Gloss. Paper Ink Terms Letterpress Printing (B.S.I.) 11 Hiding power, the capacity of an ink to obliterate the previously printed ink film.
▪ II. ˈhiding, vbl. n.2 slang or colloq.
[f. hide v.2]
1. A flogging, thrashing, beating.
1809Sporting Mag. XXXIV. 95 As complete a hiding as the greatest glutton..would wish to take. 1817Scott Search after Happiness xiii, Some tumours..Gave indication of a recent hiding. 1822T. Bewick Mem. 118 Giving him a severe beating, or, what was called, a ‘hideing’.
2. In colloq. phr. to be on a hiding to nothing, to be faced with a situation in which any outcome would be unfavourable or in which success is impossible, spec. (app. orig. in Horse-racing) that of being expected to win easily, so that one gains no credit from victory, and is disgraced by defeat. Cf. to prep. 19 a.
1905A. M. Binstead Mop Fair xi. 193 They will, like the man who was on a hiding to nothing the first time Tom Sayers saw him, ‘take it lying down’. 1964C. P. Snow Corridors of Power ii. 17 He wanted to get out of his present job as soon as he had cleaned it up a little—‘This is a hiding to nothing,’ he said simply—and back to the Treasury. 1975Sunday Times 8 June 28/2 The Indian batsmen were on a hiding to nothing. They could not win. 1977Times 29 Jan. 10/7 Derby know they are on a hiding to nothing at Fourth Division Colchester, who have a reputation as giant-killers. 1980Spectator 8 Mar. 3/1 Lord Soames would have been on a hiding to nothing in trying to exercise gubernatorial authority and viceregal judgment.
▪ III. ˈhiding, ppl. a.
[f. hide v.1 + -ing2.]
That hides: see the verb.
1483Cath. Angl. 185/2 Hydynge, occultans, abscondens. 1705E. West Mem. (1865) 222 Not altogether a hiding God. 1874J. P. Hopps Princ. Relig. xiii. (1878) 42 Freed from most of these hiding veils.
Hence † ˈhidingly adv., secretly, privily.
1382Wyclif 2 Sam. xii. 12 Forsothe thou didist hidyngli. ― Wisd. xviii. 9 Hidendly [1388 priueli] forsothe the riȝtwis childer of goode men sacrifieden. |