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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HID'DEN, pp. of hide. Concealed; placed in secrecy.
1. Secret; unseen.
2. Mysterious.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not accessible to view; "concealed (or hidden) damage"; "in stormy weather the stars are out of sight" [syn: concealed, hidden, out of sight]
2: designed to elude detection; "a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole"; "a secret passage"; "the secret compartment in the desk" [syn: hidden, secret]
3: difficult to find; "hidden valleys"; "a hidden cave"; "an obscure retreat" [syn: hidden, obscure]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 13th century 1. being out of sight or not readily apparent ; concealed 2. obscure, unexplained, undisclosed • hiddenness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

past part. of HIDE(1). Derivatives: hiddenness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hide Hide (h[imac]d), v. t. [imp. Hid (h[i^]d); p. p. Hidden (h[i^]d"d'n), Hid; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiding (h[imac]d"[i^]ng).] [OE. hiden, huden, AS. h[=y]dan; akin to Gr. key`qein, and prob. to E. house, hut, and perh. to E. hide of an animal, and to hoard. Cf. Hoard.] 1. To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. A city that is set on an hill can not be hid. --Matt. v. 15. If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid. --Shak. 2. To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. --Pope. 3. To remove from danger; to shelter. In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. --Ps. xxvi. 5. To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection. ``A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself.'' --Prov. xxii. 3. To hide the face, to withdraw favor. ``Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.'' --Ps. xxx. 7. To hide the face from. (a) To overlook; to pardon. ``Hide thy face from my sins.'' --Ps. li. 9. (b) To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with. Syn: To conceal; secrete; disguise; dissemble; screen; cloak; mask; veil. See Conceal.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hidden Hid"den, p. p. & a. from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves (Mus.), consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave. Syn: Hidden, Secret, Covert. Usage: Hidden may denote either known to on one; as, a hidden disease; or intentionally concealed; as, a hidden purpose of revenge. Secret denotes that the thing is known only to the party or parties concerned; as, a secret conspiracy. Covert literally denotes what is not open or avowed; as, a covert plan; but is often applied to what we mean shall be understood, without openly expressing it; as, a covert allusion. Secret is opposed to known, and hidden to revealed. Bring to light the hidden things of darkness. --1 Cor. iv. 5. My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet. --Milton. By what best way, Whether of open war, or covert guile, We now debate. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Hidden is the past participle of hide. 2. Hidden facts, feelings, activities, or problems are not easy to notice or discover. Under all the innocent fun, there are hidden dangers, especially for children... ADJ 3. A hidden place is difficult to find. As you descend, suddenly you see at last the hidden waterfall. ADJ

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hid'-'n: The translation of Taman, "to hide," "to bury" (Job 3:16); of tsaphan "to conceal," "store up" (Job 15:20, "The number of years is hidden to the oppressor," the Revised Version (British and American) "even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor," margin "and years that are numbered are laid up"; Job 24:1, "Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty," the Revised Version (British and American) "Why are times not laid up by the Almighty?" margin as the King James Version with "Why is it?" prefixed; Ps 83:3, "They consulted (the Revised Version (British and American) "consult") against thy hidden ones"); of matspunim (from tsaphan), "hidden things or places" (Ob 1:6, "How are his hidden things sought up!" the Revised Version (British and American) "treasures," the American Standard Revised Version "sought out"); of pala', "to be wonderful," "difficult" (De 30:11, "This commandment .... is not hidden from thee," the Revised Version (British and American) "too hard for thee," margin "or wonderful"); of chaphas, Hithpael, "to hide one's self" (Pr 28:12, the Revised Version (British and American) "When the wicked rise, men hide themselves," margin (Hebrew) "must be searched for"); of kruptos, "hidden," "secret" (1Pe 3:4, "the hidden man of the heart"; 1Co 4:5, krupton, "the hidden things of darkness"; 2Co 4:2, "the hidden things of dishonesty," the Revised Version (British and American) "of shame"); of apokrupto, "to hide away," trop., not to reveal or make known (1Co 2:7, "But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden"; compare Eph 3:9; Col 1:26).

Among the occurrences of "hidden" in Apocrypha we have (2 Esdras 16:62), "The Spirit of Almighty God .... searcheth out all hidden things in the secrets of the earth," the Revised Version (British and American) "He who made all things and searcheth out hidden things in hidden places"; Ecclesiasticus 42:19, "revealing the steps (the Revised Version (British and American) "traces") of hidden things," apokruphos; 42:20, "Neither any word is hidden from him," the Revised Version (British and American) "hid," ekrube).

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Concealed, secret, latent, occult, clandestine, close. 2. Abstruse, recondite, mysterious, mystic, mystical, dark, obscure, cabalistic, occult, hermetic.

Moby Thesaurus

abstract, abstruse, arcane, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, between the lines, blind, buried, cabalistic, camouflaged, censored, classified, close, closed, clouded, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, deep, delitescent, disguised, dormant, eclipsed, enigmatic, esoteric, guarded, hermetic, hibernating, hid, hush-hush, imperceptible, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, indiscernible, insensible, invisible, latent, lurking, muffled, mysterious, mystic, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, out of sight, possible, potential, private, privy, profound, recondite, restricted, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, shrouded, sightless, sleeping, smothered, stifled, submerged, suppressed, top secret, transcendental, ulterior, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, unbreatheable, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under the surface, under wraps, underground, underlying, undiscernible, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unknown, unmanifested, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unrevealable, unrevealed, unseeable, unseen, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unviewed, unwhisperable, unwitnessed, veiled, viewless, virtual, wrapped in clouds