HIDE, the skin of beasts; but the word is particularly applied to those of large cattle, as bullocks, cows, horses, &c.
Hides are either raw or green, just as taken off the carcass, salted, or seasoned with salt, alum, and salt-petre, to prevent their spoiling; or curried and tanned. See TANNING.
HIDE of Land, was such a quantity of land as might be ploughed with one plough within the compass of a year, or as much as would maintain a family; some call it 60, some 80, and others 100 acres.