Citations:hinder

Verb (transitive): To keep back; to delay or impede

 * 1591 - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona act ii, scene 7 (First Folio ed.)
 * Then let me goe, and hinder not my courſe

Verb (transitive): To make difficult to accomplish

 * 1599 — William Shakespeare, Henry V act ii, scene 2 (act i; First Folio ed.)
 * Since God ſo graciouſly hath brought to light This dangerous Treaſon, lurking in our way, To hinder our beginnings.
 * 1644 — John Milton,  Areopagitica
 * There is yet behind of what I purposed to lay open, the incredible loss and detriment that this plot of licensing puts us to; more than if some enemy at sea should stop up all our havens and ports and creeks, it hinders and retards the importation of our richest merchandise, truth;
 * 1871-1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 1
 * Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks, vanity, and merely canine affection.
 * Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks, vanity, and merely canine affection.

Adjective: Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind

 * 1590 — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book I, canto IV
 * For on a sandie hill, that still did flit And fall away, it mounted was full hie, That every breath of heaven shaked it: And all the hinder parts, that few could spie, Were ruinous and old, but painted cunningly.
 * 1840-1841 — Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, chapter 65
 * The Marchioness hung on behind for a few moments, and, feeling that she could go no farther, and must soon yield, clambered by a vigorous effort into the hinder seat, and in so doing lost one of the shoes for ever.
 * 1879 — Thomas Huxley, The Crayfish, chapter 5
 * The total number of the gills is only eight. Of these, five are large pleurobranchiæ, attached to the epimera of the five hinder thoracic somites; two are arthrobranchiæ, fixed to the interarticular membrane of the external maxillipede; and one, which is the only complete podobranchia, belongs to the second maxillipede.
 * 1884 — Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland, section 9
 * Imagine a woman duly decorated, according to the new Code; with the front half (i.e. the half containing eye and mouth) red, and with the hinder half green.
 * 1925 — Arthur Keith, The Antiquity of Man, 2nd ed., p547
 * On the left side, although the parietal reaches up to the middle line, a long marginal fragment, at least 10 mm. wide, has been broken away from the hinder border.
 * 1990 — C. W. H. Havard (ed.), Black's Medical Dictionary, 36th edition, p 673
 * On a line dividing the front two-thirds from the hinder one-third, and set in the shape of a V, is a row of seven to twelve large flat-topped circumvallate papillae, ...

Noun: the buttocks

 * 1994 July 13, Dale Dauten, "To Really Learn Something, Study Walt Disney's Life", Charlotte Observer, page 7:
 * Or that, like former Secretary of State George Schultz, you have a tiger tattooed on your hinder.
 * 1997, Richard Laliberte and Stephen C. George, The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning, ISBN 0875963234, page 195:
 * Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder.
 * 2005 February 4, Gary Peterson, "Cal's Renovation is Great Unknown", Contra Costa Times, page b01:
 * The stadium is seismically vulnerable, its facilities are substandard, and there are Old Blues still carrying splinters in their hinders...