2. Verb. (third-person singular of hide) ¹
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Definition of Hides
1. hide [v] - See also: hide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hides
Literary usage of Hides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Bull hides are fibrous; they arc largely used for heel lifts, and for cheap ...
From a tanner's standpoint, the shorthorns.are the best hides procurable. ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"M. act of March 19, 1901, for the inspection of hides offered for transportation
beyond the limits of the territory, does not render that statute—if ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"This formula is particularly suitable for large and heavy hides. ... Thick and
heavy hides are usually tanned "in the bark" as it is termed; thinner hides ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"At the commencement of the year there was a stock of over 200000 hides in this
... During the month of February several considerable parcels of hides were ..."
5. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and by John Ramsey McCulloch, Vethake, Henry (1852)
"hides are raw or green; thai is, in the state in which they ... whence the hides
wore imported, with the Quantities brought from each. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Tho hides of oxen are received in tho tan-yard in four different conditions.
These are—(1) market or slaughter hides, which, coming direct from local ..."