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单词 hidebound
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hideboundadj.n.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪdbaʊnd/, U.S. /ˈhaɪdˌbaʊnd/
Etymology: < hide n.1 in locative relation + bound adj.2: compare tongue-tied.
A. adj.
I. Senses relating to tightly clinging skin, and hence to restricted scope.
1. Of cattle: Having the skin clinging closely to the back and ribs so that it cannot be loosened or raised with the fingers, as a result of bad feeding and consequent emaciation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [adjective] > hidebound
clung1559
hidebound1559
clunged1611
1559 [see sense B.].
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. xl. 415 Their horses, no other than lame jades and poor hide-bound hildings.
1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune v. i. 57 I had rather my Ox should graze in a Field of my own, than live hide-bound upon the Common.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 244 A hide-bound bull is going to be killed.
2. Of human beings: Having the skin tight and incapable of extension.
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the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [adjective] > tight
hidebound1599
skin-bound1784
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered v. 17 An Archilochus leane and hidebound with hart-fretting enuie.
1624 F. Quarles Job Militant in Divine Poems (1717) 196 My bones are hide-bound.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lii. 209 This did not make me..Hide-bound and Costive.
1895 W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia iii. 21 They [the children] had not the hide-bound, hunger-pinched appearance of the children of Yabroud.
figurative.1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow (4th impr.) sig. E8v And till he eate a Schoolman hee is hide-bound.a1642 J. Suckling Poems (1648) 8 His Muse was hydebound [1646 hard bound].1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. 55 Always ease an uneasy heart, and never let it get hidebound.
3. Of trees, etc.: Having the bark so closely adherent and unyielding as to impede growth.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by quality or health > [adjective] > hidebound
bark-bound1623
hidebound1626
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §545 If Trees be Hide-bound, they wax lesse Fruitfull, and gather Mosse.
1727 A. Pope Macer 134 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Like stunted hide-bound Trees, that just have got Sufficient Sap, at once to bear and rot.
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 27 No part of it appears stunted or hidebound.
figurative.a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 138 Hitherto the English-pale had been hide-bound in the growth thereof, having not gained one foot of ground in more than two hundred years.
4.
a. transferred and figurative. Of persons, their minds, etc.: Restricted in view or scope; narrow; cramped; hence, bigoted, obstinately set in opinion.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > bigotry, intolerance > [adjective]
hidebound1603
bigot1623
bigotish1652
bigoted1660
bigoticala1670
bigotic1678
intolerating1711
intolerant1765
chauvinist1877
redneck1938
chauvinistic1975
shut-minded1977
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [adjective]
retrograde?1518
hidebound1603
tradition-bound1660
tradition-loving1660
tradition-ridden1660
mumpsimus1680
stickfast1803
arriéré1814
stick-in-the-mud1832
reactive1836
reactionary1847
reactionist1848
misoneistic1891
red-necked1896
Blimpian1935
blimpish1938
redneck1938
1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. L3v [To] intrinsicate into the maior of the matter, with such hide-bound reasons.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 21 To blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humor which he calls his judgement.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 2 And still the Harsher, and Hide-bounder The Damsels prove, become the Fonder.
1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 27 No narrow hide-bound mind that can only love and seek its own self.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde iii. 31 An excellent fellow..but a hide-bound pedant for all that.
b. Close-fisted, stingy, niggardly. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]
gnedec900
gripplea1000
fastOE
narrow-hearteda1200
narrow?c1225
straitc1290
chinchc1300
nithinga1325
scarcec1330
clama1340
hard1340
scantc1366
sparingc1386
niggardc1400
chinchy?1406
retentivea1450
niggardousa1492
niggish1519
unliberal1533
pinching1548
dry1552
nigh1555
niggardly1560
churlish1566
squeamish1566
niggardish1567
niggard-like1567
holding1569
spare1577
handfast1578
envious1580
close-handed1585
hard-handed1587
curmudgeonly1590
parsimonious?1591
costive1594
hidebound1598
penny-pinching1600
penurious1600
strait-handed1600
club-fisted1601
dry-fisted1604
fast-handed1605
fast-fingered1607
close-fisted1608
near1611
scanting1613
carkingc1620
illiberal1623
clutch-fisteda1634
hideboundeda1640
clutch-fista1643
clunch-fisted1644
unbounteous1645
hard-fisted1646
purse-bound1652
close1654
stingy1659
tenacious1676
scanty1692
sneaking1696
gripe-handed1698
narrow-souled1699
niggardling1704
snippy1727
unindulgent1742
shabby1766
neargoinga1774
cheesemongering1781
split-farthing1787
save-all1788
picked1790
iron-fisted1794
unhandsome1800
scaly1803
nearbegoing1805
tight1805
nippit1808
nipcheese1819
cumin-splitting1822
partan-handed1823
scrimping1823
scrumptious1823
scrimpy1825
meanly1827
skinny1833
pinchfisted1837
mean1840
tight-fisted1843
screwy1844
stinty1849
cheeseparing1857
skinflinty1886
mouly1904
mingy1911
cheapskate1912
picey1937
tight-assed1961
chintzy1964
tightwad1976
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. iv. 75 The neighbours praysen Villio's hide-bound sonne.
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iii. sig. F3v Ther's nothing in that hide-bound Vsurer.
1683 H. Hare Situation of Paradise 73 Cares and sleepless nights tormented with continual lashings a hidebound miser.
II. Bound in hide.
5. Having an edging or binding of hide.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > edged or bound with
hidebound1858
1858 W. Ellis Three Visits Madagascar xii. 336 The hard-wooded and hide-bound shields of the attacking party afforded no protection.
B. n.
The diseases affecting cattle and trees, described above in senses A. 1, A. 3. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > close-clinging skin or emaciation
hidebound1559
hidebinding1748
clingc1800
the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > trees
wind-shake1545
file1600
joint-ache1601
wind-shock1664
measles1674
hidebound1678
carcinoma1832
knot1845
cup-defect1875
cup-shake1875
beech disease1905
1559 T. Cooper Thesaurus Coriago, the sickenesse of cattall when they are clounge, that their skynnes dooe cleve fast to their bodies, hyde bounde.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 78 Oxen are also much troubled with a disease called the hide-bound.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. vi. 132 It causeth also Hide bound, Feavers, Head-aches [etc.].
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Hide-bound..is a disease whereunto Trees..by the cleaving of the Bark, are subject.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) Hide-Bound, a Disease in Horses, when the Skin sticks so fast to their Backs and Ribs, that you cannot pull it from the Flesh with your Hands.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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