Given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret.
[...] although from the small creature's habits it must be to a certain extent local, several places in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire are known to us where it may be called abundant, taking into consideration its hideling ways.
A person or thing given to hiding itself.
From hidel + -ing or from a back-formation from hidelings (adverb).
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