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hidebound
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded [syn: traditionalist ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 bound with the hide of an animal. 2 (context of a domestic animal English) Having the skin adhere so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated. 3 (context of trees English) Having the bark so close and constricting ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from hide (n.1) + past tense of bind (v.). Original reference is to emaciated cattle with skin sticking closely to backbones and ribs; metaphoric sense of "restricted by narrow attitudes" is first recorded c.1600.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hidebound \Hide"bound`\, a. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. --Bacon. Untractable; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ hidebound bureaucrats ▪ It was predictable that the medical establishment, so hidebound and reactionary, would reject Dr Stone's ideas. ▪ The hidebound attitudes of Russia's powerful aristocracy made any kind of progress ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hidebound (Icelandic: Þröng Sýn ) is a 2005 animated film that tells of Aron, a young man who is concerned about communications and the human situation in today’s society. He decides to conduct an experiment and observes the reactions of other people to ...
Usage examples of hidebound.
I was informed by that hidebound body politic that I may apply again next term for readmittance in the fall, which may or may not be granted.
And for all he may have strayed from the hidebound preachments of his forebears, Adams remained enough of a Puritan to believe anything worthy must carry a measure of pain.
In justifying his sudden decision to Janoah Eldridge, Willie had merely explained that he had hired Celestina because she was so comfortable to have around, a recommendation at which Wilton would have jeered but which, perhaps, in the eyes of the Lord was quite as praiseworthy as that which her more hidebound but less accommodating sisters could have boasted.
So, instead of prescribing careful concoctions of mercury and antimony, we rebalanced humors like the most hidebound of Galenists, and consulted the stars with a fervor worthy of Paracelsus himself.
Creative misfits of all kinds slipped into the eighty approved artistic modes, including several that were sanctioned to satirize the hidebound and shake up the stodgy.
That optimistic baby had come on so like the private eye in any long-ago radio drama, believing all you needed was grit, resourcefulness, exemption from hidebound cops' rules, to solve any great mystery.
DeMob gave me a reasonably secure cover identity as a playboy remittance man from a primogeniture polity, sent to while away his youth in less hidebound (and politically loaded) biomes, and it’.