LekhoriLekhoriBound with the hide of an animal.
Open the box in which his large hidebound book is kept. The faint smell of manure, over 150 years old, still rises from thick yellowing pages, and you begin to live his life.
Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
Some of the horses were looking hidebound, and I promised the sergeant that I'd buy a couple of hundredweight of linseed for them when I went on leave. Linseed was a cosy idea; it reminded me of peacetime conditions.
Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
It hath been observed that hacking of trees in their bark, both downright, and across, so as you make them rather in slices than in continued hacks, doth great good to trees; and especially delivereth them from being hide-bound, and killeth their moss.
From hide (“animal skin”, noun) + bound (“tied”, adjective).
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