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HIND
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Irregular inflected form: hinder
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A female deer, especially an adult female red deer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hind" is a kind of...):
American elk; Cervus elaphus; elk; red deer; wapiti (common deer of temperate Europe and Asia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("hind" is a kind of...):
grouper (usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hind"):
Epinephelus adscensionis; rock hind (found around rocky coasts or on reefs)
Holonyms ("hind" is a member of...):
Epinephelus; genus Epinephelus (genus of groupers or sea bass)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located at or near the back of an animal
Example:
the hinder part of a carcass
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
posterior (located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure)
Context examples:
However, there are numerous barriers that can hinder a drug’s ability to work successfully.
(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)
“Why, now, who's to hinder you?”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Nothing seemed to stop or even to hinder them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In a week or less, from what I see, John Bull will be on his hind legs and fair ramping.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Aylward,” cried the knight, “pick your three trustiest archers, and see if you cannot do something to hinder their aim. Methinks they are within long arrow flight.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the middle of it, White Fang, rushing in, sank his teeth into Lip-lip's hind leg.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Several times he fell down and was dragged in the traces, and once the sled ran upon him so that he limped thereafter in one of his hind legs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But none was made; and I became, at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterwards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I say "hopped" advisedly, for the beast moved like a kangaroo, springing along in an erect position upon its powerful hind legs, while its front ones were held bent in front of it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
