hind

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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!
   • When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
2. 2

   Backward

   Backward; to the rear.

3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.

   2. 5

      A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.

      • 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[…].
      • 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, […]
      • The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.
   3. 6

      A surname transferred from the nickname.

   4. 7

      Synonym of Hindustan.

      • Jai Hind!
   5. 8

      A female given name from Arabic.

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