Hidebound

1. a. Niggardly; penurious.
2. a. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; — said of an animal.
3. a. Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; — said of trees.
4. a. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.