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Webster 1913 Edition


Lilied

Lil′ied

(lĭl′ĭd)
,
Adj.
Covered with, or having many, lilies.
By sandy Ladon’s
lilied
banks.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lilied

LIL'IED

,
Adj.
Embellished with lilies.
By sandy Ladon's lilied banks.

Definition 2024


lilied

lilied

English

Adjective

lilied (comparative more lilied, superlative most lilied)

  1. Covered with, or having many, lilies.
    • 1634, John Milton, Arcades, III. Song,
      Nymphs and Shepherds, dance no more / By sandy Ladon's lilied banks;
    • 1906, Percy MacKaye, Jeanne d'Arc, Act III, New York: Macmillan, p. 114,
      She drives you from the bridge. Her armour!— Now— / Oh, she is blown about and fluttered o'er / By clouds of little golden butterflies, / And where she thrusts her lilied banner through, / She glitters double—in the air and river.
    • 1935, John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds, Prologue,
      The summer term had been busy and stuffy, and to a Rugby player there were few attractions in punts among lilied backwaters.