Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Chiefly British A farm laborer, especially a skilled worker.
- noun Archaic A country bumpkin; a rustic.
- adjective Located at or forming the back or rear; posterior.
- noun A female red deer.
- noun Any of various spotted groupers of the genus Epinephelus or various related fishes of the genus Cephalopholis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The female of the red deer or stag in and after its third year: correlative to hart for the male.
- noun One of various fishes of the family Serranidæ and genus Epinephelus, as E. drummond-hayi, a grouper of the Gulf coast of the United States.
- Pertaining to, constituting, or including the rear or posterior extremity, as of a body or an object; backward; posterior: opposed to fore: as, the hind toe of a bird; the hind feet of a horse; the hind part of an animal.
- noun A laboring man attached to a household; an agricultural laborer; a peasant; a farm-servant; a rustic.
- An abbreviation of Hindu, Hindustan, and Hindustani. In the etymologies of this dictionary it stands only for Hindustani.
- noun A small bass-like fish, Cephalopholis cruentalis, of the family Serranidæ, found in the West Indies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
- noun (Zoöl.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as
Epinephelus apua of Bermuda, andEpinephelus Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called alsoconey ,John Paw ,spotted hind . - noun obsolete A domestic; a servant.
- noun engraving A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant.
- adjective In the rear; -- opposed to
front ; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Located at the
rear (most often said of animals' body parts). - noun A
female deer , especially ared deer at least two years old. - noun archaic A servant, especially an agricultural
labourer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female deer, especially an adult female red deer
- adjective located at or near the back of an animal
- noun any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The tank, containing about sixty gallons, and the furnace were placed in what they called the hind boot; the fore boot contained luggage, if any was carried.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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This ballot was defeated, and in hind sight, it appears one of the most effective advocates against the measure was the police.
Wine In Grocery Stores: Coercion? Boycotts? Intimidation? 2009
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So in hind sight, I have had an extra ¼ of play in the left knee which made me over compensate my right side.
MY KNEES -- PART THREE, AFTER THE SURGERY Maggie Jochild 2007
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In our hallways, we never got away with the language todays schools are saturated with and lucky for us, the principal could introduce our butts to the "Board of education" when we (in hind-sight) deserved it.
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The hind is a timourous creature, and much affected with the noise of thunder; and no marvel, when sometimes proud and stout men have been made to tremble at it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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a dark, melancholy man, clad in homespun, whose peculiar mission was to turn his name hind part before and use as few words as possible.
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That’s why, in hind sight, it was a mistake for Gore to make the movie.
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I guess in hind site I should have wrote a disclaimer about it later, and because I didn’t I claim stupidity.
Stephen Barkett 2010
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In the 1840 revision in Fugitive Verses (and in subsequent editions), Baillie glosses the word hind as "somewhat above a common labourer, — the tenant of a very small farm, which he cultivates with his own hands" (DPW 772).
'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790) 2008
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A hind is his nurse; he inherits a cottage, with many useful and curious instruments; some ideas remain of the education of his two first years; some arts are borrowed from the beavers of a neighbouring lake; some truths are revealed in supernatural visions.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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