Middle English Dictionary Entry
bihīden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | bihīden v. Also (W) bihūden. Forms: sg. 2 bihydest; sg. 3 bihyd, bihūt; sbj. bihūde; impv. bihūd; p. sg. 2 bihuddest; ppl. bihid(de, bihud, bihūded. |
| Etymology | OE behȳdan; -hȳdde; -hȳd(de, -hȳded. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. hiden v.
1.
(a) To conceal or hide (sth.); ~ on herte (mode), keep secret; (b) to hide (sth.) away; hoard secretly; store up, accumulate; (c) to shelter or protect.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1070 : Brohton dune þæt hæcce þe þær wæs be hid.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Dom.Quadr.(Bod 343)42/15 : Þe þe his scylde bihyd, ne bið he na iriht.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)38/9 : Þeah ðe men nyten hwæt ðu on mode bihydest.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)100/13 : Crist..walde þat his godcundlice miht wære ȝyt þam deofle bihud.
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)43/34 : Hit is bilepped & bihud [Corp-C: ihud], ac ich hit wulle unuolden.
- a1300(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Jes-O 29)242 : By-hud hit [serewe] on þire heorte.
b
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)3/4 : Seo boc 'peri didaxeon', þæt ys seo swytelunȝ hu fela ȝera wæs behuded [L latuit] se læcecræft.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)136/14 : & hæfð þenne deaþ behud on hire heortæn, on yfele þauunge þat yfel to donne.
- c1225 Body & S.(2) (Wor F.174)6/7 : Nu þu bist bihuded on alre horde fulest..on durelease huse.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.VA (Lamb 487)109 : Þe feorðe unþeu is þet þe riche mon..bihude his feh..ac..þe ðe deleð elmessan..þe bihut his gold hord on heouene riche.
c
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)110/27 : Drihten, þu bihuddest þine halȝæn on þines andwlitæn wuldre.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)254a/a : Ofte þe vyne þat bereþ wyn..torneþ in to a wilde vyne..whan he is nouȝt y tilied neyþer byhidde neyþer byschrudde.