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Hind
Definitions
- 1 Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
"Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!"
- 2 Backward; to the rear.
- 1 located at or near the back of an animal wordnet
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname.
- 2 Synonym of Hindustan.
"Jai Hind!"
- 3 A female given name from Arabic.
- 1 A doe (female deer), especially a red deer at least two years old. countable, uncountable
"Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, an hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox."
- 2 A servant, especially an agricultural labourer. archaic
"Attilius Regulus […] writ vnto the common-wealth, that a hynde, or plough-boy whom he had left alone to over-ſee and husband his land (which in all was but ſeaven acres of ground) was run away from his charge[…]."
- 3 a female deer, especially an adult female red deer wordnet
- 4 A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus. countable, uncountable
- 5 any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English hinde, from Old English hindan (“at the rear, from behind”), Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-ta- (“down, below, with, far, along, against”), from *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌰 (hindana, “from beyond”), Old Norse hindr (“obstacle”), Old Norse handan (“from that side, beyond”), Old High German hintana (“behind”), German hinter (“behind, beyond”), Old English hinder (“behind, back, in the farthest part, down”), Latin contra (“in return, against”). More at hinder, contrary.
From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Old English hind, Proto-West Germanic *hindu, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.
From Middle English hynd, hine, from Old English hī(ġ)na, genitive plural of hīġa (“servant, family member”), in the phrase hīna fæder ‘paterfamilias’. The -d is a later addition (compare sound). Compare Old Frisian hinde (“servant”).
From hind, a nickname for a gentle or timid person.
Abbreviation of Hindustan.
Borrowed from Arabic هند.
See also for "hind"
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