Hide () To flog; to whip.

Hidebound () Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.

Hidebound () Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.

Hidebound () Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.

Hidebound () Niggardly; penurious.

Hideous () Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.

Hideous () Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise.

Hideous () Hateful; shocking.

Hider () One who hides or conceals.

Hiding () The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment.

Hiding () A flogging.

Hied () of Hie

Hying () of Hie

Hie () To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.

Hie () Haste; diligence.

Hiems () Winter.

Hierapicra () A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark.

Hierarch () One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.

Hierarchal () Alt. of Hierarchic

Hierarchic () Pertaining to a hierarch.

Hierarchical () Pertaining to a hierarchy.

Hierarchism () The principles or authority of a hierarchy.

Hierarchies () of Hierarchy

Hierarchy () Dominion or authority in sacred things.

Hierarchy () A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

Hierarchy () A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.

Hierarchy () A rank or order of holy beings.

Hieratic () Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.

Hierocracy () Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy.

Hieroglyph () Alt. of Hieroglyphic

Hieroglyphic () A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.

Hieroglyphic () Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark.

Hieroglyphic () Alt. of Hieroglyphical

Hieroglyphical () Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.

Hieroglyphical () Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable.

Hieroglyphically () In hieroglyphics.

Hieroglyphist () One versed in hieroglyphics.

Hierogram () A form of sacred or hieratic writing.

Hierogrammatic () Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing.

Hierogrammatist () A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics.

Hierographic () Alt. of Hierographical

Hierographical () Of or pertaining to sacred writing.

Hierography () Sacred writing.

Hierolatry () The worship of saints or sacred things.

Hierologic () Alt. of Hierological

Hierological () Pertaining to hierology.

Hierologist () One versed in, or whostudies, hierology.

Hierology () A treatise on sacred things; especially, the science which treats of the ancient writings and inscriptions of the Egyptians, or a treatise on that science.

Hieromancy () Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.

Hiermartyr () A priest who becomes a martyr.

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