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(dialectal) Given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret..
[...] although from the small creature's habits it must be to a certain extent local, several places in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire are known to us where it may be called abundant, taking into consideration its hideling ways.
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Hideling means (dialectal) Given to hiding or concealment; secretive; furtive; clandestine; secret..
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[...] although from the small creature's habits it must be to a certain extent local, several places in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire are known to us where it may be called abundant, taking into consideration its hideling ways.
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