hide
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Searchable Lemmata: hyd (OE), hide (ME), hide (AF), hide (OScots), hide (MdE).
Alternate Forms: hede, hid, hiden, hides, hude, huden, huide, hyde.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Raw Material;
in cloth and clothing contexts: the skin of an animal from which the hair has been removed. Also, the skin of a larger animal, with or without the hair, which will be or has been prepared as fur, leather, etc.(ante 1000 still in current use)
3. e toutz les lains, pealx, lanuz, hides, plumbe & estain & diverses autres marchandises passantz hors du roialme d’Engleterre les terres d’Irland & de Gales & Berwyk sur Twede deussent repairer a l’estaple de Caleys
Legal.
[AND Stats (ii 246) post 1274]
5. [352a] ... A nail of Lambeswolle is at the value of ix d. or x d. ... Nor no charge nor imposition to be putte on them, oyer than is, or shall be, putte on Mercery ware. ... [359a] ... There hath beene, and yitte is, ladde and conveid oute..grete quantite of Wolle, Wolfell, Hydes, Leede and Tynne, and many other Merchaundises ... [359b] ... That ye Bullyon be brought in to ye mynte at Caleys, yat is to say, for ech sarpler of Wolle, of which the sak weyght is sold for xii Marc, vi li.
Legal.
[MED RParl. (4.352a-359b) 1429]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, OE.
WF:
Etym Cog: húð (Ice).
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