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adjective

Hind adj. (compar. hinder; superl. hindmost, or hindermost) 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; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

noun

Hind n.

(Zool.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.

(Zool.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as Epinephelus apua of Bermuda, and Epinephelus Drummond-hayi of Florida; called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind.

Hind n.

A domestic; a servant. (Obs.)

A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant. (Eng.) "The hind, that homeward driving the slow steer Tells how man's daily work goes forward here."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... received, at the last moment before making up for press, the following letter from Sir John Herschel,[793] {384} in reference to the matter referred to in the communication from Mr. Hind[794] given below: ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... beast in Australia is the Kangaroo, remarkable for its short fore-legs, and its great strong hind-legs, and for the pocket in which it shelters its little one. It is a gentle creature, and can be easily tamed. A pet kangaroo may often be seen walking about a settler's garden, cropping the grass ...

— Far Off • Favell Lee Mortimer

... of Kalifah, Ali Nur al Din and Miriam the Girdle Girl [454]; the tales grouped together under the title of "King Jalead of Hind;" and Abu Kir and Abu Sir, memorable on account of the ...

— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright

... I sat down on a stone and spent certainly twenty minutes looking at them. They paid hardly any attention whatever to my presence—certainly no more than well-treated domestic creatures would pay. One of the rams rose on his hind legs, leaning his fore-hoofs against a little pine tree, and browsed the ends of the budding branches. The others grazed on the short grass and herbage or lay down and rested—two of the yearlings several times playfully butting ...

— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various

... Leto's horse-loving daughter[4] received him erst when he was come from the ridged hills and winding dells of Arcady, what time his father laid constraint upon him to go at Eurystheus' bidding to fetch the golden-horned hind, which once Taygete vowed to her[5] of Orthion and made a sign thereon of consecration. For in that chase he saw also the land that lieth behind the blast of the cold North-wind: there he halted and marvelled at the trees: and sweet desire thereof possessed him that he might plant them at the ...

— The Extant Odes of Pindar • Pindar

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