hide vs hint

hide

verb
  • To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. 

  • To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. 

  • To beat with a whip made from hide. 

noun
  • A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway. 

  • The skin of an animal. 

  • (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them. 

  • One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril. 

  • A covered structure to which a pet animal can retreat, as is recommended for snakes. 

  • A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents. 

hint

verb
  • To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue. 

  • To develop and add hints to a font. 

  • To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner. 

noun
  • A small, barely detectable amount. 

  • An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not. 

  • An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement. 

  • A clue. 

  • Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting. 

How often have the words hide and hint occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )