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 carcase; salted, or seasoned with salt, alum, and saltpetre, 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.

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.