Fareweel, myrhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in myhindmoſtgillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using itshind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy:[…], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 3:
Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, anhind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.
1769,Firishta, translated byAlexander Dow,Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:
The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofedhind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.
Attilius Regulus[…] writ vnto the common-wealth, that ahynde, or plough-boy whom he had left alone to over-ſee and husband his land (which in all was but ſeaven acres of ground) was run away from his charge[…].
The farmers ſervants who have families, and engage by the year, are calledhinds, and receive 10bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two laſt articles are called hummel corn,[…]
1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden,Nina, An Icelandic Tale[1], page41:
The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids andhinds.
1931, Pearl S. Buck,The Good Earth:
that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like ahind, who am your son as well as he!
price(the monetary expression of the value of a good, the amount of money or some other material value that is given in exchange for buying something or that is demanded when selling something)
1926-1933, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, chapter XI, inTõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice)[2], page79:
Küll arvas ka tema, et kraav on Pearu oma, sest ta seisis ju tema krundil, aga peale selle arvas ta veel, et temal, Andresel, oleks pidanud õigus olema esimese vee jooksmist näha, sest tema oli ju kraavi eest poolehinda maksnud ja vett oli kraavi kahtlemata rohkem tulnud tema kui Pearu maa seest.
He also thought that the ditch belonged to Pearu, because it was on his land, but he also thought that he, Andres, should have had the right to see the first water running, because he had paid half theprice for the ditch and the water had undoubtedly come more from his land than from Pearu's.
“hind”, in[EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2009
(archaic) A skilled labourer on a farm, especially aploughman. In Southern Scotland, specifically a married skilled farmworker given housing in a cottage and often given special privileges in addition to his wages. Occasionally a derogatory term.
“hind”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
