Middle English Dictionary Entry
hīde n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | hīde n.(2) Also (in names) hid-, -ide, -hede, heide, huide & Latinized forms. Pl. hīdes & hīden & hīde; (early gen. pl.) hīden(e, hidenene & hīda. |
| Etymology | OE hīd |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A land measure, varying in size [orig. prob. the amount needed to support one family with its dependents, servants, etc.]; (b) land; in feld and ~, in field and land, everywhere; in ~ and in hein, in land and enclosure, everywhere, completely [?with pun on hide n. (1)]; bi heu ne bi ~, about servant or land, at all.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1135) in Madox Form.Angl.(1702)38 : Præterea volo & firmiter præcipio, quod dimittatis esse in pace inperpetuum vj Hidas Ecclesiæ ejusdem de Dominio Prioris & Monachorum, de omnibus Geldis.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)16894 : Þe king bi-tahte hond sixti hidene lond.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)18241 : Sixti hiden of londe.
- c1200(c1150) Hen.Huntingdon Hist.Angl.in RS 74 (Arun 48)176 : Hida autem Anglice vocatur terra unius aratri culturae sufficiens per annum.
- (1284) Cust.Battle Abbey in Camd.n.s.41100 : Quatuor virgatae seu wystae faciunt unam hydam. Quatuor hydae faciunt unum feodum militis.
- (?1287) Rec.Crondal in Hamp.RS 391 : Juliana de Aula tenet j hidam terræ continentem cvj acras terræ..Gilbertus de La Stane tenet dimidiam Hidam terræ continentem xxxix acras.
- a1300 Hundreds Engl.(Jes-O 29)54 : Hereford schire, xij hundred hida; warewik schire xij hundred hida.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)52/185 : An hondret hidenene [Corp-C: hiden] of guod lond with hire he ȝaf þer.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6016 : He..let gadery a nywe ost..Of heyemen & of lowe ek, ygadered bi þe hide, þat euere eiȝte hide lond an man him ssolde finde.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7676 : King willam..Let enqueri..Hou moni plou lond & hou moni hiden [vr. hides] al so Were in euerich ssire & wat hii were wurþ þer to.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.89 : But now wodes i-hewe adoun and newe telynge lond i-made..and meny townes ibulde, and so þere beeþ now in Engelond meny moo hides and townes þan were in þat tyme.
- a1400(1218-19) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.1490 : Quaelibet hida continet in se sex virgatas, Et quaelibet virgata continet viginti quatuor acras.
- a1400(1240) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.1429 : Triginta duae acrae faciunt virgatam, et quatuor virgatae faciunt hydam.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.110 : Þat þe Danegelde for euer suld be forgyuen & of..ilk a hide [F De chascun hyde] tuo schillynges þat he toke Suld neuer eft betide.
- c1425 Liber de Hyda in RS 4595-6 : The sevyn hyde lond at Wrthy, langyng to the hundryd hydyn of Mycheldefer.
- c1425 Liber de Hyda in RS 45237 : He by qwath hys wyf ten hydys of lond at Manyngforde.
- c1410(a1387) Legal Gloss.Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)97 : Hydage, taylage of hydes of lond.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.28/22-4 : In Hokenorton, j hide of villenage..al-somuche as longeth to thre hides (that is to say, two acris to euery ȝerde).
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)33/6 : To the mynchons of Godestowe..ij hydys of lond in blebyry.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.91 : William Conquerour..causede to be describede, and the hides and carucates of londes to be measurede.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)44 : iiij acres makithe a yerde of londe, and v yerdis makithe a hyde off lande & viij hydis makythe a knyghtes fee.
b
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)458 : Whan corne ripeþ in heruesttyde, Mery it is in felde and hyde.
- a1450 ?Audelay An a byrchyn bonke (Dc 302)135 : Holde þai neuer þe pres be hew ne be hyde.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)253/285 : Of thy hurtis be þou hole In hyde and in hane.
2.
(a) In cpds.: ~ man, a kind of manorial tenant; also as surname; ~ man-lond, the land held by such a tenant; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.245].
Associated quotations
a
- (1298) in Neilson Ramsey Abbeyapp.17 : De v s. de Willelmo Margarete pro i hydemanland quondam Alexandri fratris sui.
- (1334) Court R.Colchester 1132 : Agnes Hydman.
- (1346) in Fransson Surn.205 : John Hydman.
- (1351) in Neilson Ramsey Abbeyapp.70 : xxiiii virgatarum dimidia in opere et censu, v cotmannorum, iii hidemannorum et ii dimidiorum coterellorum, de quolibet virgatario xl ova, cotmanno et hidmanno x ova et coterello v ova.
- a1400(1252) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.1361 : Rogerus Hydeman.
b
- (1167) in Pipe R.Soc.11129 : Adam de Fifhida.
- (1197) Feet Fines Rich.I in Pipe R.Soc.241 : Gillebertus de la Hide.
- (1242) EPNSoc.16 (Wil.)236 : Tydulfeshid.
- (1275) EPNSoc.4 (Wor.)87 : Quinzehides.
- (1277) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames100 : Ric. Delhide.
- (1322) in Sundby Dial.Wor.79 : De la Heyde.
- (1327) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 10164 : Agn. atte Hide.
- ?1316 SMChron.(Roy 12.C.12)459 : At the hyde of Wynchestre Were his bones don in cheste.
- (1346) EPNSoc.4 (Wor.)66 : Southyde de Mathine.
- (1362) EPNSoc.16 (Wil.)328 : Langefifhide.
- (1390) EPNSoc.16 (Wil.)237 : Tydolside.
- (1437) in Sundby Dial.Wor.79 : Huyde.
- (1447) EPNSoc.13 (War.)112 : Hyde juxta Hinkeley.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)150/16 : Iohn of the wodehyde.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)246/16 : The acre that is I-called the hide acre.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)284/16 : Another acre lieth in Berland bitwene the lond that is I-called the hyde and the lond of the said mynchons.
- (1492) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)460 : Stokeyntynhede.