Hid"e*ous (hd"*s; 277), a. [OE. hidous, OF. hidous, hidos, hidus,
hisdos, hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain
origin; cf. OHG. egid horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough,
bristly, E. hispid.] 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes;
dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. "A piteous
and hideous spectacle." Macaulay.
2. Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as,
a hideous noise. "Hideous cries." Shak.
3. Hateful; shocking. "Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver."
Shak.
Syn. -- Frightful; ghastly; grim; grisly; horrid; dreadful; terrible.
-- Hid"e*ous*ly, adv. -- Hid"e*ous*ness, n.
Hid"er (?), n. One who hides or conceals.
Hid"ing, n. The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from
view or knowledge; concealment.
There was the hiding of his power.
Hab. iii. 4.
Hid"ing, n. A flogging. [Colloq.] Charles Reade.
Hie (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hying.] [OE.
hien, hihen, highen, AS. higian to hasten, strive; cf. L. ciere to put
in motion, call upon, rouse, Gr. &?; to go, E. cite.] To hasten; to go
in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun. [Rare, except in
poetry] "My husband hies him home." Shak.
The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.
Dryden.
Hie, n. Haste; diligence. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hi"ems (?), n. [L.] Winter. Shak.
||Hi"e*ra*pi"cra (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; sacred + &?; bitter.] (med.)
||A warming cathartic medicine, made of aloes and canella bark.
||Dunglison.
Hi"er*arch (?), n. [LL. hierarcha, Gr. &?;; "iero`s sacred (akin to
Skr. ishiras vigorous, fresh, blooming) + &?; leader, ruler, fr. &?; to
lead, rule: cf. F. hiÈrarque.] One who has high and controlling
authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely
hierarchs. Milton.
{ Hi"er*arch`al (?), Hi`er*arch"ic (?), } a. Pertaining to a hierarch.
"The great hierarchal standard." Milton.
Hi`er*arch"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. hiÈrarchique.] Pertaining to a
hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.
Hi"er*arch`ism (?), n. The principles or authority of a hierarchy.
The more dominant hierarchism of the West.
Milman.
Hi"er*arch`y (-), n.; pl. Hierarchies (-z). [Gr. 'ierarchi`a: cf. F.
hiÈrarchie.] 1. Dominion or authority in sacred things.
2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each
subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs,
metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by
priests. Shipley.