Definition of "hilding" [hil•ding]

• A wretch, a contemptible person (noun)

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• "Some hilding fellow he must be, who dared not stay to assert his claim to the tourney prize which chance had assigned him."
• "Giles Gosling, the cowardly hilding, refused me one on any terms whatever, lest, forsooth, he should suffer."
• "If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no more in your respect."