hidels

== English == === Noun === hidels plural of hidel === Anagrams === hidles, Diehls, sheild, hields, Shield, shield, delish, Dishel, deshil, ledish == Middle English == === Alternative forms === hiddels, hiddils, hiddlis, hidelis, hidils, hidlis, hudlis, hudlys, hydels hudles, huydeles, huydels (Southern, West Midland) hiddillis, hyddillis, hyddlys, hydlis, hydlys (Early Scots) === Etymology === Inherited from Old English hȳdels; compare hidel. By surface analysis, hiden (“to hide”) +‎ -els. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhidəls/, /ˈhid(ə)ləs/, /ˈhiː-/ IPA(key): /ˈhydəls/, /ˈhyd(ə)ləs/, /ˈhyː-/ (Southern, West Midland) === Noun === hidels (uncountable) A hiding place or refuge. (with in) Hiding, secrecy. ==== Usage notes ==== It is often unclear whether a given form should be interpreted as this word or the plural of hidel; forms have been placed here unless they clearly functioned as a plural. ==== Descendants ==== Middle Scots: hiddillis Scots: hiddles ==== References ==== “hī̆del(s, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “hiddil(l)is, hidlis, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.