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▪ I. tid, n.1 Sc.|tɪd|
[? unexplained var. of tide n.]
1. A fit or favourable time or season; an opportunity, occasion.
1721Ramsay Elegy Patie Birnie xiii. 1728― Fables, Fox & Rat 40 He took the tid when Lowry was away. 1801Macneill Poet Wks. (1844) 54 To catch the tids o' life is sage, Some joys to save.
2. spec. The proper season for some agricultural operation, as harrowing or sowing; hence, suitable condition of the soil for cultivation or cropping.
1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 147 If it were not for fear of losing the proper opportunity (the Tid of sowing, as it is vulgarly called), the longer the wheat-seed is delayed..the better. 1825Jamieson, Tid..2. The condition which any soil is in for the purpose of agriculture; as, ‘The ground's no in tid’. c1830in Stephens Bk. Farm (1844) I. 537 A tid (or proper condition of the ground for harrowing) cannot be taken advantage of on the drained furrow until the other is dry. 1842J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 79 The ‘tids’ of seed-time, hay-time, and harvest, are in a great measure lost. 1863Morton Cycl. Agric. Gloss. (E.D.S.).
3. A humour, mood, or fancy to do something.
a1774Fergusson Farmer's Ingle Poems (1845) 38 Tak tent, case Crummy tak her wonted tids, And ca' the laiglen's treasure [i.e. the new milk] on the ground. 1825Jamieson s.v., To tak the tid, to be seized with a perverse or ungovernable humour. 1890J. Service Thir Notandums viii. 48 I'm no i' the tidd the noo.
▪ II. tid, n.2 ? local.
[app. an alteration of tit n.3, in sense girl, young woman.]
A girl or woman.
1888Barrie When a Man's Single i, Nanny was a terrible tid for cleanness. 1891― Little Minister xv, You're the bonniest tid I ever saw oot o' an almanack.
▪ III. † tid, a. Obs.
A word app. deduced by Bailey from tid-bit, but also in independent dialect use. From Bailey in Johnson, whence in later dicts.: also in nonce-use from tid-bit: see quots.
1727Bailey vol. II, Tid, nice, delicate, as a Tid-Bit. 1755Johnson, Tid, adj. (tydder, Saxon), tender; soft; nice..Titbi′t (properly tidbit; tid, tender, and bit), nice bit; nice food. [See note below.]
1730Panegyric on Swift 13 While Dunces of the coarsest Clay..Devour the Church's tiddest Bits, That only should be shar'd by Wits. 1799E. Du Bois Piece Family Biog. I. 70 She is too tid a bit for us lubbers aboard the world. [Note. The OE. word meant by J. is tídre, tyddre ‘weak, fragile, easily broken; frail in health, infirm’; it could not give tid ‘tender, soft, nice’. The latter does not appear as general Eng. before Bailey. But the Eng. Dial. Dict. has from Midl. counties Tid, tidd = ‘fond, attached, careful (of), solicitous (about); (of a child) tender, nice, fanciful; (of a man) cunningly reserved’. J. D. Robertson's Gloucester Glossary (1890) has Tid, ‘playful, frolicsome’, and cites from John Smyth's Berkeley MSS. c 1640 (ed. 1885, III. 25) ‘Tyd, i.e. wanton. Hee is very tyd, i.e. very wanton. A tyd bit, i.e. a speciall morsell reserved to eat at last’. These evidence the limited dial. use of an adj. tid, tidd, or tyd; though the senses given do not very closely agree with that deduced by Bailey from tid-bit.] ▪ IV. tid, v. Sc.
[f. tid n.1]
trans. To choose the right time for; to time: esp. with reference to land or crops: cf. tid n.1 2.
1808Jamieson, Tid, v.a., to time, to choose the proper season. The aitseed has been weill tiddit, the proper season for sowing oats has been taken. 1883J. Martin Remin. Old Haddington 317 He judiciously ‘tidded’ the land and manured highly so as to produce heavy crops.
▪ V. tid
obs. var. tit, tite adv.; obs. pa. tense and pple. of tide v.1, tithe v.1 |