Our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter
The prince of Cumberland.
Shakespeare, Macbeth, act i. sc. 4.
Hide. This word is at present only contemptuously applied to the skin of man, being reserved almost exclusively for that of beasts; but it had once the same extent of meaning as by the German ‘haut’ is still retained, which is ‘cutis’ and ‘pellis’ both.
The ladye fayre of hew and hyde
Shee sate downe by the bedside.
Eger and Grine, 263.
Her kerchers were all of silk,
Her hayre as white as any milke,
Lovesome of hue and hyde.