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Hidden   /hˈɪdən/   Listen
verb
Hide  v. t.  (past hid; past part. hidden; pres. part. hiding)  
1.
To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. "A city that is set on an hill can not be hid." "If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid."
2.
To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate."
3.
To remove from danger; to shelter. "In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion."
To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself."
To hide the face, to withdraw favor. "Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled."
To hide the face from.
(a)
To overlook; to pardon. "Hide thy face from my sins."
(b)
To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with.
Synonyms: To conceal; secrete; disguise; dissemble; screen; cloak; mask; veil. See Conceal.


Hide  v. i.  (past hid; past part. hidden; pres. part. hiding)  To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation. "Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide."
Hide and seek, a play of children, in which some hide themselves, and others seek them.


Hidden  past part., adj.  From Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
Hidden fifths or Hidden octaves (Mus.), consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave.
Synonyms: Hidden, Secret, Covert. Hidden may denote either known to on one; as, a hidden disease; or intentionally concealed; as, a hidden purpose of revenge. Secret denotes that the thing is known only to the party or parties concerned; as, a secret conspiracy. Covert literally denotes what is not open or avowed; as, a covert plan; but is often applied to what we mean shall be understood, without openly expressing it; as, a covert allusion. Secret is opposed to known, and hidden to revealed. "Bring to light the hidden things of darkness." "My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet." "By what best way, Whether of open war, or covert guile, We now debate."





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"Hidden" Quotes from Famous Books



... being ambitious to have a prospect, and look about him, gave out that, if any bird would take him up into the air, and show him the world, he would reward him with the discovery of many precious stones, which he knew were hidden in a certain ...
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... of the shape of a cypris or mussel-shell, with the anterior end the thickest, the sternal surface nearly or quite straight, and the dorsal arched. Almost the whole of what is externally visible consists of the carapace; for the thorax and limbs are hidden and enclosed by its backward prolongation; and even at the anterior end of the animal, the narrow sternal surface can be drawn up, so as to be likewise enclosed. As in several Stomapod crustaceans, the part of the ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin
... unknown estate: And seeing that God had gifted my father with those personal qualities which so well fitted him for so great an undertaking, he was himself inclined that his country and original might remain hidden ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III. • Robert Kerr
... given them, we would not give them. Bodb Dearg said then to our father: 'Unless you will put away your sons, we will wall up your dwelling-place on you.' So the eight-and-twenty brothers of us came out to look for a place for ourselves; and we searched all Ireland till we found this secret hidden place, and we are here ever since. And my own name," he said, "is Donn, son of Midhir. And we had every one of us ten hundred armed men belonging to himself, but they are all worn away now, and only the eight-and-twenty ...
— Gods and Fighting Men • Lady I. A. Gregory
... their pleading has made me shudder. Sublime actors such as these play for me, for an audience of one, and they cannot deceive me. I can look into their inmost thoughts, and read them as God reads them. Nothing is hidden from me. Nothing is refused to the holder of the purse-strings to loose and to bind. I am rich enough to buy the consciences of those who control the action of ministers, from their office boys to their mistresses. Is not that power?—I can possess the fairest women, receive their softest ...
— Gobseck • Honore de Balzac


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