Sekirov Dictionary

hind

/haɪnd/

adjective 2
noun 3
forms 3
phrases 3

adjective2

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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! — 1786
Backward; to the rear.

noun3

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A doe (female deer), especially a red deer at least two years old.
- 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. — 1624
A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.
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(no longer used) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
- The farmers servants who have families, and engage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two last articles are called hummel corn, […] — 1792

forms

hinds · hinder · hindmost

Phrases with hind

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