On 11 Jan 2002 04:25:50 GMT, Gerry Wright <gdwright@atdial.net> wrote: >From "The Oxford Universal Dictionary", 3rd edition, revised. pg. 903. > >Hilding. Obs. or arch. 1582. [?] 1. A worthless or vicious beast, esp. a >hores - 1719. 2. A good-for-nothing (man of woman) 1592. > >Better you shouldn't have asked. > >Gerry Wright >ZoneZebra Productions >San Francisco Drat! Ya beat me to it! But my Webster's New World College Dictionary also says: a low, contemptible person. < ME heldinge, bending aside < OE heildan, to incline, bow [Archaic] So I gues Mr. Hilding was/coulda been a low bowing, scraping, contemptible rapscallion. But then again, he was probably a nice guy! <g> Henry F. Brownlee South Louisiana

His name was probably Hiltiningenian but they changed it when he got to Ellis Island.<vbg> (sorry.... couldn't resist) -- Barb Orange County, Indiana, Marriage Record Index: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~woodhousegenealogy/ "Henry F. Brownlee" <hfb1931@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:3c3e82bd.320547525@news.msy.bellsouth.net... > On 11 Jan 2002 04:25:50 GMT, Gerry Wright <gdwright@atdial.net> wrote: > > > >From "The Oxford Universal Dictionary", 3rd edition, revised. pg. 903. > > > >Hilding. Obs. or arch. 1582. [?] 1. A worthless or vicious beast, esp. a > >hores - 1719. 2. A good-for-nothing (man of woman) 1592. > > > >Better you shouldn't have asked. > > > >Gerry Wright > >ZoneZebra Productions > >San Francisco > > Drat! Ya beat me to it! But my Webster's New World College Dictionary also > says: a low, contemptible person. < ME heldinge, bending aside < OE heildan, > to incline, bow [Archaic] > So I gues Mr. Hilding was/coulda been a low bowing, scraping, contemptible > rapscallion. But then again, he was probably a nice guy! <g> > > Henry F. Brownlee > South Louisiana > > >