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▪ I. hidlings, adv. and n. Sc. and north. dial.
Also erron. -lands = -lins.
[f. hid ppl. a. + -ling, -lings, adverbial formative: cf. backling, -s, etc.]
A. adv. In hidden wise, secretly.
a1225Ancr. R. 280 He mei hine unmunlunge aworpen [v.r. hodlinges casten]. 1808–18in Jamieson. a1851J. Baillie (Ogilvie), An' she's to come to you here, hidlings, as it war. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Hidlands, secretly.
b. More usually in hidlings (as if n.): in secret, secretly.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 171 The hardy or the manfull in hidlynges he nendeynyth [= n'endeynyth] not any-thynge to do. 1563Winȝet Wks. (1890) II. 33 It is a grete temptatioun..the samin man..suld inbring in hidlingis pestilent errouris. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. i, And skulk in hidlings on the hether braes. 1801in Ferguson & Nanson Munic. Rec. Carlisle (1887) 259 To sell in open market, or in hidlings. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xxiii. 146 It's been a quarrel and maybe a fight.. and he's been in hidlins.
B. app. taken as n. pl.
a. Hiding-places, secret places.
b. Secret or clandestine operations.
1597Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 764 Thair is no boundis, bot I haif bene, Nor hidlingis fra me hid. 1813W. Beattie Tales 36 (Jam.) The hills look white, the woods look blue, Nae hiddlins for a hungry ewe, They're sae beset wi' drift. 1823E. Logan St. Johnstoun III. 19 (Jam.), I dinna ken what a' this hidlings is about. 1846–60R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunt. Songs (1883) lix. xiv. 166 One was shunted into hidlands, T'other laid upon the shelf.
▪ II. hidlings, a. Sc. and north. dial.
Also 9 hiddlin'.
[The same word as prec. used as adj., and then often with final -s dropped: cf. darkling.]
Hidden, secret, underhand, clandestine.
a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 75 He ne'er kept up a hidlins plack, To spend ahint a comrade's back. 1818S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. 127, I wud nae count myself married i' the hiddlins way they gang aboot it noo. 1824― Inher. lxxxiv, Carrying on this hiddlin' coortship. 1887J. Service Life Dr. Duguid v. 31 His hiddlin' kind of ways. |