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Webster 1913 Edition
Lid
Lid
(lĭd)
, Noun.
[AS.
hlid
, fr. hlīdan
(in comp.) to cover, shut; akin to OS. hlīdan
(in comp.), D. lid
lid, OHG. hlit
, G. augenlid
eyelid, Icel. hlið
gate, gateway. √40.] 1.
That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover;
as, the
. lid
of a chest or trunk2.
The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
Shak.
Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier’s
lid
. Byron.
3.
(Bot.)
(a)
The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
(b)
A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian
Eucalypti
. (c)
The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lid
LID.
n. [L. claudo, cludo; Gr.; Heb.]A cover; that which shuts the opening of a vessel or box; as the lid of a chest or trunk; also, the cover of the eye, the membrane which is drawn over the eyeball of an animal at pleasure, and which is intended for its protection; the eyelid.
Definition 2024
Lid
lid
lid
English
Noun
lid (plural lids)
- The top or cover of a container.
- (slang) A cap or hat.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.
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- (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
- (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
- 2001, realsurf.com message board
- Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
- 2003 August, Kneelo Knews
- the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
- 2001, realsurf.com message board
- (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
- (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- Short for eyelid.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter III”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
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Derived terms
Translations
top or cover
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Verb
lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)
- To put a lid on something.
Translations
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
Noun
lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)
Derived terms
- gemeenteraadslid
- ledemaat
- raadslid
- regeringslid
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Noun
lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)
Derived terms
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *liþ-, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.
Noun
lid ?
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish, from Latin lītem, singular accusative of līs (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lid/, [lið]
- Rhymes: -ið
Noun
lid f (plural lides)