located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass"
An animal's hind legs are at the back of its body. Suddenly the cow kicked up its hind legs. relating to the back part of an animal with four legs hind legs/feet/quarters/limbs talk the hind legs off a donkey talk (10) (Probably from hinder ). a female deer
In the rear; opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession
Emblematic of St Giles, because "a heaven-directed hind went daily to give him milk in the desert, near the mouth of the Rhone " (See Hart ) The hind of Sertorius Sertorius was invited by the Lusitanians to defend them against the Romans He had a tame white hind, which he taught to follow him, and from which he pretended to receive the instructions of Dian'a By this artifice, says Plutarch, he imposed on the superstition of the people He feigned a demon (in a hind concealed) To him the counsels of the gods revealed " Camoens: Lusiad, i The milk-white hind, in Dryden's poem, The Hind and the Panther, means the Roman Catholic Church, milk-white because "infallible " The panther, full of the spots of error, is the Church of England Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin " Part i, lines 3, 4