HIND  , the

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