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hind
1[ hahynd ]
hind
2[ hahynd ]
noun
- Zoology. the female of the deer, chiefly the red deer, especially in and after the third year.
- any of several speckled serranid fishes of the genus Epinephelus, found in the warmer waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
hind
3[ hahynd ]
noun
- a peasant or rustic.
- Scot. and North England. a farm laborer.
Hind
4abbreviation for
Hind.
5abbreviation for
- Hindi.
- Hindu.
- Hindustan.
- Hindustani.
hind
1/ haɪnd /
noun
- a simple peasant
- (in N Britain) a skilled farm worker
- a steward
hind
2/ haɪnd /
adjective
- prenominal (esp of parts of the body) situated at the back or rear
a hind leg
Hind.
3abbreviation for
- Hindi
- Hindu
- Hindustan
- Hindustani
hind
4/ haɪnd /
noun
- the female of the deer, esp the red deer when aged three years or more
- any of several marine serranid fishes of the genus Epinephelus, closely related and similar to the gropers
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Example Sentences
This video shows a bear walking on its hind legs through a New Jersey neighborhood.
A taxidermic bear stands almost six feet tall on his hind legs with his mouth gaping in a never-ending silent roar.
So they took the hind legs of the animal and began to drag it the other way.
“They rise up on their hind legs when somebody is coming to attack their cubs,” Palin said.
Perhaps our job, post-election, is to provide a gentle but swift boot in the bee-hind of the party whose mascot is an ass.
For, at that moment Squinty stood up on his hind legs, as the boy had taught him, and walked over toward the big balloon basket.
Then, as Squinty remembered how he had been taught to stand up on his hind legs, he thought he would do that trick now.
Squinty dropped down on his four legs, since he found that walking on his hind ones brought him no food.
He usually seizes his prey by the flank near the hind leg, or by the throat below the jaw.
Sometimes he went on four feet and sometimes he stood up straight on his hind feet.
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