LekhoriLekhoriTo put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
To beat with a whip made from hide.
He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.
From Middle English hyde, from Old English hȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéw(H)tis (“skin, hide”) (compare Latin cutis (“skin, rind, hide”)...
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The human skin.
O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!
A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents.
The exact size of hides varied with soil quality, but each one generally encompassed 24 to 26 hectares.