hidebound

adjective5

1. •
   Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
2. •
   (figurative) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.

   • Oh, I know he's a good fellow—you needn't frown—an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant blatant pedant. — 1886
3. •
   Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
4. •
   Bound with the hide of an animal.

   • Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life. — 1992
5. •
   (no longer used) Niggardly; penurious; stingy.

   • hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother? — 1644