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HIND , the See also:female of the red-See also:deer, usually taken as being three years old and over, the male being known as a " See also:hart . It is sometimes also applied to the female of other See also:species of deer . The word appears in several See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf . Dutch and Ger . Hinde, and has been connected with the Goth. hinan (hinthan), to seize, which may be connected ultimately with " See also:hand " and " See also:hunt." " Hart," from the O.E. See also:heart, may be in origin connected with the See also:root of Gr . «Spas, See also:horn . " Hind " (O.E. hine, probably from the O.E. hinan, members of a See also:family or See also:household), meaning a servant, especially a labourer on a See also:farm, is another word . In See also:Scotland the " hind " is a farm servant, with a cottage on the farm, and duties and responsibilities that make him See also:superior to the See also:rest of the labourers . |
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