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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hind \Hind\, noun [OE. hine, AS. h[=i]ne, h[=i]na, orig. gen. pl. of h[=i]wan domestics; akin to Icel. hj[=u] man and wife, domestics, family, Goth. heiwafrauja master of the house, G. heirath marriage; cf. L. civis citizen, E. city or E. home. Cf. {Hide} a measure of land.]
1. A domestic; a servant. [Obs.] --Shak.
2. A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant. [Eng.]
The hind, that homeward driving the slow steer Tells how man's daily work goes forward here. --Trench.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hind \Hind\, adjective [Compar. {Hinder}; superl. {Hindmost}, or {Hindermost}.] [OE. hind, adverb, back, AS. hindan behind. See {Hinder}, adjective] In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hind \Hind\ (h[imac]nd), noun [AS. hind; akin to D. hinde, OHG. hinta, G. hinde, hindin, Icel., Sw., & Dan. hind, and perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.), E. hunt, or cf. Gr. kema's a young deer.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A spotted food fish of the genus {Epinephelus}, as {Epinephelus apua} of Bermuda, and {Epinephelus Drummond-hayi} of Florida; -- called also {coney}, {John Paw}, {spotted hind}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hind
adjective: located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: {back(a)}, {hind(a)}, {hinder(a)}]
noun
1: any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
2: female red deer [also: {hinder}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "hind": Cape elk, Partlet, Virginia deer, aft, after, aftermost, antelope, back, backward, biddy, bitch, bossy, brood mare, buck, camel, camelopard, caribou, countryman, countrywoman, cow, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, ewe, ewe lamb, fallow deer, fawn, fellah, filly, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, guinea hen, gyp, hart, hartebeest, heifer, hen, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindmost, jenny, kaama, lioness, mare, moose, mule deer, musk deer, muzhik, nanny, nanny goat, okapi, peahen, peasant, peon, posterior, postern, provincial, rear, rearmost, rearward, red deer, reindeer, retral, retrograde, roe, roe deer, roebuck, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow, springbok, stag, tail, tigress, vixen, wildebeest
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Hind Heb. 'ayalah (2 Sam. 22:34; Ps. 18:33, etc.) and 'ayeleth (Ps. 22, title), the female of the hart or stag. It is referred to as an emblem of activity (Gen. 49:21), gentleness (Prov. 5:19), feminine modesty (Cant. 2:7; 3:5), earnest longing (Ps. 42:1), timidity (Ps. 29:9). In the title of Ps. 22, the word probably refers to some tune bearing that name.
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