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Hide, Hyde, n.¹ Also: hid(d, hyd(d, hyid, heid, heyd. [ME. hid, hyd(e, OE. hýd.]

1. A hide of an animal. Also as a material.(1) 1375 Barb. ii. 511.
Schoyne … off hydys mad a1400 Leg. S. vii. 681.
Nothire wes lewit … Hyde, na skyne na ȝet ald schone, Vnhetyne [= uneaten] 1398 Acts I. 212/1.
For custume of wol, hydis na skynnys 1431 Coll. Ayr & Wigton I. 228.
That na gyld breder sal … sell na fres hydis 1513 Doug. i. iv. 90.
Hys feris … Hynt of the hydis, maid the bowkis bair Ib. vi. 32.
Cled in to the spottit lynx hyde a1568 Scott ii. 127.
Bettir we hath wer byand hyddis and weddir skynis at hame 1581 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 225.
That the said flesche haif the hyde stikking with the carcage 1597 Bk. Rates 6 b.
Hydis callit eisterling salt hydis c1650 Spalding I. 377.
Order wes givin out to serche the countrie for gray hydis 1677 Banff Ann. I. 157.
The hydis, tallo … and penches of the saidis beiffis(b) 1458 Reg. Great S. 143/1.
Of ilke last of hidis of fremen auch pennys 1503 Treas. Acc. II. 203.
For tua brokit hidis to couir ane sadil quhit 1513 Doug. Comm. viii/2.
Dido maid carve the bull hid in sa small twhangis 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Serplaith.
Ten hides makis ane daiker(c) 1464 Peebles B. Rec. 150.
To by hiddis, skynis, futfellis 1508 Rentale Dunkeld. 3.
Nyne dakir and thre hiddis(d) 1622 Edinb. Test. LI. 224 b.
Ane dressit heyd pryce fourtene pundes 1623 Ib. LII. 22 b.
In the lyme hoilles … ffourtie heydes(e) 1610 Highland P. III. 121.
The ship hathe some … harbarye hyides 1617 Acts IV. 557/1.
A commisioun anent barking of hyidis 1629 Banff Ann. II. 250.
The … wasching of claithes and hyidis at the water mouthe of Doverne … was ane great … hender to the salmound fischeing(2) 1518 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 179.
[Unfreemen to] ceis fra all bying of woll, hyde, skyn, claith [etc.] 1600 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 90.
Of … ilk pek of woll or salt hyd

2. The human skin. Also, to los the hyd, to die or be killed: see Los v.¹ 3 c (3). 1375 Barb. iii. 584.
Men mycht se Full oft the hyde leve on the tre a1400 Leg. S. l. 689.
Angelis … mad hire hyd … hale & schene c1420 Wynt. viii. 1030.
Throwch all Lwndyn he had hyr ryde, Na clath on hyr to cuwyre hyr hyd a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 602.
His tender hid fra heid to fute thai rife c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 186.
With hurkland banis holkand throw thy hyd 1513 Doug. xii. vi. 162.
[The spear,] Persand the hyde … maid a litill wond 1531 Bell. Boece I. lii.
He wes fairer of visage and hide, than wes ony lady of the warld c1552 Lynd. Mon. 766.
He tuke ane rib furth of hys syde, Syne fill'd it up with flesche, and hide 1596 Crim. Trials I. ii. 376.
He beand … skairgeit with towis, in sic soirt, that thay left nather flesch nor hyde upoun him 1600-1610 Melvill 169.
I rowit … till the hyd cam af my fingars

3. In alliterative collocations with hare, hair (hair), and hew.a. Hyde or (and) hare: so Du. huid en haar.  a1400 Leg. S. xxxviii. 514.
Thai … Vnbrynt haile fundine ware & wnuemmyt in hyd ore hare c1450-2 Howlat 950.
This howlat hidowis of hair and of hyde c1500 Barounis Lawis fol. 8 b.
[To produce] that best in heid and hair at certane day & steid 1535 Stewart 36340.
The corps … was … Without corruptioun into hyde or hair c1575 Balfour Pract. 523.
He sall exhihite the samin beist … in hyde and hair 1650 Maxwell Mem. I. 354.
This is for the blainke of ane ill eye; … I conjure thé out of hide and out of haireb. c1420 Wynt. v. 252.
Twelff maydynnys, … sofft Off hyd, and fayre off hew c1420 Ratis R. 1680.
[In old age] falȝeis al perfeccioune Of wyt and strenth, of hyd & hew a1500 Sir Eger 125 b.
An oyntment over the skin he drew, To make the hide another hew c1515 Asl. MS. I. 237/4.
The cors hale in hyde & hewe 1535 Stewart 9779.
Plesand scho wes baith of hir hew and hyde c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS. 252 a/8.
I fynd ane freschar feir to fang Baith of hyd hew and hair a1570-86 Maitl. F. cxxx. 106.
Ȝe ar so haill of hew and hyd Luif hes me fangit

c. (To be without) hew or hide, to be lacking in 'colour', to be pallid in complexion. Be hyd & hew, by the coloration of (a cow's) hide or skin. But hyd or hew, without blemish on hide or skin. a1500 Sir Eger 966.
I red you bide, For neither have you hew nor hide; I see your countenance is good, But ye are pale and ye want blood 1514 Wigtown B. Ct. 40 a.
Michell McGarve ... has tane in hand to pref the kow deliuerit to Male Hannay at the nixt court be hyd & hew c1530-40 Stewart Maitl. F. lxxxii. 14.
[He] me delyuerit but delay Ane fayr haiknay but hyd or hew