hid

H4I1D2
/hɪd/

simple past of hide

Less commonScrabble 7

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hid1

verb
  1. pastsimple past of hide
  2. archaicparticiplepastpast participle of hide

    Foꝛ nothing is ſecret, that ſhall not be made manifeſt: neither any thing hid, that ſhall not be knowen, and come abꝛoad.

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:17
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    Oh! here it is. I was sure it could not be far off; but I had put my huswife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid, but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table.

    1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 6

    To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.

    1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490

HID2

adjectiveHID (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparableautomotiveInitialism of high-intensity discharge.
nounHID (plural HIDs)

plural HIDs

  1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of human interface device.
  2. abbreviationAbbreviation of human-implantable device.
proper noun
  1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Hidalgo: a state of Mexico.

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