hind
IPA: hˈaɪnd
noun
- A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.
- A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.
- (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- Synonym of Hindustan
adjective
- Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
- Backward; to the rear.
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Examples of "hind" in Sentences
- That’s why, in hind sight, it was a mistake for Gore to make the movie.
- So in hind sight, I have had an extra ¼ of play in the left knee which made me over compensate my right side.
- I guess in hind site I should have wrote a disclaimer about it later, and because I didn’t I claim stupidity.
- This ballot was defeated, and in hind sight, it appears one of the most effective advocates against the measure was the police.
- a dark, melancholy man, clad in homespun, whose peculiar mission was to turn his name hind part before and use as few words as possible.
- The tank, containing about sixty gallons, and the furnace were placed in what they called the hind boot; the fore boot contained luggage, if any was carried.
- The hind is a timourous creature, and much affected with the noise of thunder; and no marvel, when sometimes proud and stout men have been made to tremble at it.
- In our hallways, we never got away with the language todays schools are saturated with and lucky for us, the principal could introduce our butts to the "Board of education" when we (in hind-sight) deserved it.
- In the 1840 revision in Fugitive Verses (and in subsequent editions), Baillie glosses the word hind as "somewhat above a common labourer, — the tenant of a very small farm, which he cultivates with his own hands" (DPW 772).
- A hind is his nurse; he inherits a cottage, with many useful and curious instruments; some ideas remain of the education of his two first years; some arts are borrowed from the beavers of a neighbouring lake; some truths are revealed in supernatural visions.
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