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HIDE

Volume 10 · 75 words · 1810 Edition

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.

HIDE-Bound, a disease in the skin of horses. See FARRIERY.

Hieracium, hawkweed, a genus of plants belonging to the syngenesia class; and in the natural method ranking under the 49th order, Compositae. See BOTANY Index.