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f. (húðna, acc. with the article, Edda i. 370); [A. S. hûð; Engl. hide; O. H. G. hût; Germ. haut; Dan.-Swed. hud; Lat. cutis]:—a hide, of cattle; húð af nauti (neat), en skinn at sauði (sheep), N. G. L. i. 420; nauts-húð, but sauð-skinn; hörund, of a man; há (q. v.), of a horse; skrápr, of a shark; roð, of a fish; hvelja, of a whale, cyclopterus, etc., Eg. 69, Nj. 201, K. Þ. K. 38, Grág. ii. 403, Sturl. ii. 50, Dipl. v. 18; of a seal’s skin, Sks. 168, 179; húða-vara, Eg. 69; húða-fang, a supply of hides, N. G. L. i. 101.
II. metaph. as a law term, of flogging or ‘hiding’ (as the phrase still is in vulgar Engl.); fyrirgöra húð sinni, to forfeit ones hide; leysa húð sína, to redeem ones skin from flogging, N. G. L. ii. 133, 168; berja húð af e-m, to flog, i. 10, 85.