Definition of Hidebaund
Hide"bound` (?), a. 1.
Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not
to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close
and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
Bacon.
3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and
blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle.
4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.]
Quarles.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
HIDEBOUND. Stingy, hard of delivery; a poet poor in invention,
is said to have a hidebound muse.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
- Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
- Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
- Niggardly; penurious.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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