hidebound

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Bound with the hide of an animal.

   “Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life.”

2. sıfat Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.

   “Some of the horses were looking hidebound, and I promised the sergeant that I'd buy a couple of hundredweight of linseed for them when I went on leave. Linseed was a cosy idea; it reminded me of peacetime conditions.”

3. sıfat Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.

   “It hath been observed that hacking of trees in their bark, both downright, and across, so as you make them rather in slices than in continued hacks, doth great good to trees; and especially delivereth them from being hide-bound, and killeth their moss.”

4. sıfat Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.

   “Oh, I know he's a good fellow—you needn't frown—an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant blatant pedant.”

5. sıfat Niggardly; penurious; stingy.

   “1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother?”