Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An element in proper names of Anglo-Saxon, German, or Scandinavian origin, as in
Hilda (AS. Hild, etc.), Hildebert (OHG. Hiltibraht, ‘battle-bright’), Hildebrand (OHG. Hiltibrant, German Hildebrand, Icel. Hildibrandr, ‘battle-sword’), Hildegund (MHG. Hiltegunt, ‘battle-conflict’), Brunhild (OHG. Brunihild, MHG. Brünhilt, Icel. Brynhildr, ‘mailed battle’), Grimhild (MHG. Grīmhilt, Krīmhilt, Chrīmhilt, Chriemhilt, Kriemhilt, Icel. Grīmhildr, ‘helmet-battle’), Matilda (ML. and E., contr. Maud, MHG. Mahthilt, Mechtilt, French Mathilde, ‘might-battle’), etc. - An obsolete form of
held , preterit and past participle of hold.
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Examples
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I do not have time, now, to expand on the research that might specifically identify the mongrel authors of our present miseries, but I suspect the name, "Rots-hild" - (red-sign), or "rots-child" - (no foreign language translation required) would be quite close to the mark.
The True Origin of Our Present Misery: Why Peace Never Had a Chance 2009
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Rate It hild workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Indian 'slave' children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap 2007
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She wanted to cry out, It's all spoiled, like an angry, thwarted -hild.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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She wanted to cry out, It's all spoiled, like an angry, thwarted -hild.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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The e-rate is critical to our effort to put computers in every classroom and library, giving every hild the tools to succeed.
Vp Statement On Internet Hook Up For Schools And Libraries ITY National Archives 1998
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And the impostor hild be someone who needed an identity mse keeping her own was dangerous, mse, for instance, she was some kind of jitive from justice.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
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Years back he hild a commission in some cavalry reg'mint in Injia, but he got broke -- over a woman, I fancy.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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I, 'Why, Lor' sakes, Mr. Widdrinton, '---- an' then I hild up, for I ketchcd a sight of his face, an 'I thought he wuz gone for sartin.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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Then, very earnestly, "They hev hild all these years, them feelin's hev, and they hev been rewived this day in all their wiolence; and the beautiful curls that used to shine down all the daffodils are just as soft and as golden as ever!"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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Sure, iverything is comin 'our way, an' the others ain't in the swim at all; excipt that Buster made wan plunge, and hild on till the rope.
Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Louis Arundel
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