lidn.

Brit.

/lɪd/, U.S.

/lɪd/

Forms: Old English hlid(d, Middle English hlyd, Middle English lid(e, Middle English–1500s lidd(e, lydde, Middle English led(e, lyd(e, Middle English– lid.

Etymology: Old English hlid neuter = Dutch lid, Old High German hlit (Middle High German lit, modern German in combination augenlid eyelid) lid, Old Norse hliđ gate, gateway, gap < Old Germanic *hliđo^m, feminine weak-grade of root *hlῑđ-to cover, in Old English be-hlídan, Old Saxon bihlîdan to cover, Old English on-hlídan, Old Saxon anhlîdan to open.

a. That which covers the opening at the top of a vessel or closes the mouth of an aperture; the upper part of a receptacle, which may be detached or turned upon a hinge in order to give access to the interior.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > lid

lidc1000

coverclec1384

lampc1386

cover1459

covertil1463

coverturea1475

covering1479

cure1502

shed1612

bred1808

top1958

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 262 Ða ledon ða þegenas ðone Hælend ðæron, and mid hlide belucon ure ealra Alysend.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 53/213 So huy openeden þat lid of is swete toumbe þere.

c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 41 Make a luytel whucche, Forte do in þat ilke blod..whon þe lust speke with me lift þe lide sone.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5618 In þis kist þe barn sco did. Quen it spird was wit þe lid [Trin. Cambr. lidde].

c1410 Sir Cleges 272 The porter to the panere went, And the led vppe he hentt.

c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 73 Hele the potte with a close led, and stoppe hit aboutȝte with dogh or bater.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 437/2 The preest taketh the lydde of the chalys on whyche is the hoost.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xix. C And euery open vessel that hath no lydd nor couerynge, is vncleane.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xii. 9 Iehoiada the priest tooke a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 471. ¶8 Upon his lifting up the Lid of it [sc. Pandora's Box]..there flew out all the Calamities and Distempers incident to Men.

1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 589 Meantime some pyx to screen The full-grown pest, some lid to shut upon The goblin!

1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom svi. 318 The outer layer of the lid is formed of earth precisely similar to that which surrounds the hole.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. x. 232 Lift the lid for me, it is too heavy for my arms.

b. Applied to a door, shutter, board, or the like, closing an aperture. Now dialect or slang. Cf. port-lid n. at port n.³ Compounds 2.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > fittings or ornaments of windows > shutter

fall window1422

lock1440

window?c1500

lid1535

winnock-bred1546

window lid1591

counter-window1600

shut1611

shuttle1614

window-broad1628

window-shut1649

window shutter1665

window board1683

shutter1720

fallboard1742

jalousie1766

storm shutter1834

rain door1867

amado1873

sunbreak1891

brise-soleil1944

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > door of cupboard

lid1890

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings vi. 4 In y^e house he made wyndowes, which might be opened and shut with lyddes.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 147 Stoppe thy Ouen-mouth with a lidde of Butter.

a1697 J. Aubrey Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 48 Whereas his former Physitian shutt up his windowes and kept him in utter darknesse, he did open his windowe-lids and let in the light.

1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Lid, a cupboard door.

1942 ‘B. J. Ellan’ Spitfire! p. x Shut the lid, i.e., close the hood [over the pilot's cockpit].

c. The top crust of a pie. dialect.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > parts of pie

lid1615

wall1747

1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments 68 At a vent in the top of the lid put in the same, and then set it into the Oven again.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery viii. 73 A Yorkshire Christmas-Pye. First make a good Standing Crust..then lay on your Lid, which must be a very thick one.

†d. lid of the knee: the patella, kneecap. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of leg > [noun] > knee-cap

eye of the kneea1400

rotulaa1400

knee-pan14..

whirling-bone14..

knee-bonec1410

pan?a1425

rotule?a1425

rowel?a1425

whirl-bone1530

patel1552

shive1598

kneeshive1599

lid of the knee1632

patella1634

cap1767

kneecap1869

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 462 The lids of my knees beeing crushed.

e. In various slang or colloquial phrases with down, off, on, esp. to put the lid on, to bring to a close or climax; to conceal or ‘clamp down on’.

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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to

astintc700

stathea1200

atstuntc1220

to put an end toa1300

to set end ofa1300

batec1300

stanch1338

stinta1350

to put awayc1350

arrestc1374

finisha1375

terminec1390

achievea1393

cease1393

removec1405

terminate?a1425

stop1426

surceasec1435

resta1450

discontinue1474

adetermine1483

blina1500

stay1525

abrogatea1529

suppressa1538

to set in or at stay1538

to make stay of1572

depart1579

check1581

intercept1581

to give a stop toa1586

dirempt1587

date1589

period1595

astayc1600

nip1600

to break off1607

snape1631

sist1635

to make (a) stop of1638

supersede1643

assopiatea1649

periodizea1657

unbusya1657

to put a stop to1679

to give the holla to1681

to run down1697

cessate1701

end1737

to choke off1818

stopper1821

punctuate1825

to put a stopper on1828

to take off ——1845

still1850

to put the lid on1873

on the fritz1900

to close down1903

to put the fritz on something1910

to put the bee on1918

switch1921

to blow the whistle on1934

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > bring to an end or conclude [verb (transitive)]

yendc1000

abatec1300

finec1300

endc1305

finisha1375

definec1384

terminec1390

achievea1393

out-enda1400

terminate?a1425

conclude1430

close1439

to bring adowna1450

terma1475

adetermine1483

determine1483

to knit up1530

do1549

parclose1558

to shut up1575

expire1578

date1589

to close up1592

period1595

includea1616

apostrophate1622

to wind off1650

periodizea1657

dismiss1698

to wind up1740

to put the lid on1873

to put the tin hat on something1900

to wash up1925

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > remain in hiding

lurkc1300

to hide one's headc1475

mitch1558

nestle1567

to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578

to lay low1600

skulk1626

squat1658

to lie by1709

hide1872

to hole up1875

to lie low1880

to lie (also play) doggo1882

to hide out1884

to put the lid on1966

1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 467/1 In fact, excepting the ordinary saloons,..the ‘lid’ is down, secure and tight.

1964 J. P. Clark Three Plays 13 I hope he keeps The lid down on his wife for I fear She is fretting already.

1873 M. F. Mahony Chron. Fermors I. xii. 225 What wonder if the lid was constantly getting off her temper.1904 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 12 Sept. 16 Commissioner of Police McAdoo..has taken frequent occasions to deny that the ‘lid’ was off, to use the slang definition of a lax police administration.1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 96 ‘Playing with the lid off back there, ain't they?’ The sheriff's nod indicated the distant faro-table.1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 218 I'll back that opinion with the lid off.1926 A. Huxley Let. 14 Nov. (1969) 276 Then a vast book by the Italian Sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, very good..he really does take the lid off and show you the works.1927 R. A. Freeman Certain Dr. Thorndyke ii. xviii. 272 ‘My eye,’ exclaimed Miller... ‘This puts the lid on it—or rather takes the lid off.’1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) ii. 17 A few jubilant days when the lid was off following Liberation.1962 Which? May 160 (heading) 14 cars with the lid off.1968 Listener 19 Dec. 819/2 Are you the Editor of the Sunday Blast, the paper that ‘rips the lid off’?1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 4 Sept. 5/3 Inevitably when the lid blows off and riots and bloodshed and vandalism begin, the courts will be called on to do something effective about it.1974 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story ii. 15 What will happen, I ask myself, when the police take the lid off? What..will be the resulting smell?1909 Punch 30 June 452/2 Your astonishing letter puts the lid on it.1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 14 Lid (to put on), to put the lid on a town means to close the saloons, gambling houses and all other resorts except summer resorts.1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 77 Tarleton... Young man: youre a fool; but youve just put the lid on this job in a masterly manner.1914 H. A. Vachell Quinneys' ii. xx. 288 ‘Blackmail!’ gasped Quinney. ‘I prefer to call it a weapon, sir, which you are forcing me, sorely against my will, to use.’ ‘This puts the lid on.’1919 Punch 28 May 430/2 Miss Stevenson..is outside whistling for me, so I must put the lid on. Yours, Alec.1922 C. Sidgwick Victorian ix. 69 ‘That puts the lid on,’ said Jane... ‘You've done for yourself now.’1928 T. Gann Discov. Central Amer. xii. 168 Then came the earthquake, which must fairly have put the lid on, as far as Uk was concerned.1928 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 286 Inland, in the isolation, the lid is on, and the intense watchful malice of neighbours is infinitely worse than any police system.1930 J. Buchan Castle Gay xiv. 216 You can see for yourself how that would put the lid on it.1966 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 6 Aug. (1970) 410 Liz came in with a harried look, wanting to know what she could tell the press. She needed to ‘put the lid on’ if Luci had departed.1974 Times 6 Feb. 19/4 (heading) Putting the lid on distributors' profits.

f. A hat, a cap. slang. (Cf. flip v. Phrases.)

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat

hateOE

nab-cheat?1536

nab1673

kelp1736

mitre1807

tile1813

gossamer1836

cady1846

roof1857

roofer1859

pancake1875

lid1896

nudger1902

tit for tat1925

titfer1927

sky1944

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap

hurec1290

cady1846

lid1896

1896 G. Ade Artie i. 4 She meets me at the door, puts out the glad hand and says: ‘Hang up your lid and come into the game.’

1916 Story-Teller Feb. 828/2 ‘Dash my wig—where's my lid...’ He snatched his cap up off the bunk.

1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 21 I dips me lid.

1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) Gloss. 125 Lid, the hat. To dip the lid, to raise the hat.

1929 P. G. Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking ix. 304 You've no idea what a blister you look in that lid.

1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays xlvi. 178 Keep that lid of yours off your bloody ears if you don't want to look like a rotten sheeny.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues i. 20 All the big-time whores wore big red velvet hats then with bird-of-paradise feathers on them. These lids were the thing.

1960 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing xii. 132 It is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

g. (See quot. 1971.) slang.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis > specific quantity of

lid1967

1967 Time 8 Sept. 18 The high price of ‘commercial’ marijuana ($10 to $15 for a ‘lid’ from which some 40 cigarettes can be rolled).

1968 J. D. MacDonald Pale Grey for Guilt (1969) xii. 152 We had almost two lids of Acapulco Gold.

1969 Rolling Stone 17 May 6/3 We've got this guy from Sand City we just caught with a lid.

1970 K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) iv. 43 He would be selling grass, meth, acid, lids, match boxes,..or mescaline.

1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 120 Lid, one ounce of marijuana, a quantity by which it is sold.

2. lid (of the eye) = eyelid n.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > eyelid

breec890

eye-breeOE

eyelida1200

browc1200

lid (of the eye)c1220

palpebre?a1425

window1593

brow-lid1594

fin1604

under-lid1611

palpebra1634

cilia1715

eye-peeper1786

Madonna lid1863

eyewinker1923

c1220 Bestiary 26 Ðe leun ðanne he lieð to slepen Sal he neure luken ðe lides of hise eȝen.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. viii. 114 Euery byrde closyth the eye wyth the nether lydde.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. xxxv And of her eyen held the ledes downe.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3759 His loke was full louely, when ledys were opyn.

1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. B.ij It is needeful that some members be holden vp with a grystle, as the liddes of the eyes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 19 Sleepe shall neyther Night nor Day Hang vpon his Pent-house Lid .

1719 E. Young Paraphr. Job 378 When his [Leviathan's] burnish'd eyes Lift their broad lids, the morning seems to rise.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iv, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 22 I clos'd my lids and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 122 I straightly would commend the tears to creep From my charged lids.

1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight ii. 23 The skin of the lids contains no fat.

figurative.1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. v. sig. I^v Ere night shall close the lids of yon bright stars.1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xiviii, in Steps to Temple 67 The field's faire Eyes..saw no more, But shut their flowry lids for ever.

3. Each of the two sides or covers (of a book). Chiefly dialect and U.S.

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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover

forel1393

surpelc1440

covering1459

coverturea1475

heeling1498

lid1585

cover1599

binding1648

book cover1649

case1750

album cover1839

bookcase1885

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 7/1 Inuolucrum, operculum libri, sittybus,..the couer or lid of a booke.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 395 Lid, the boarded cover of a book.

1864 A. B. Grosart Lambs all Safe (1865) 85 I might close the lids of the Bible.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) at Hilling In Leicestershire generally, however, the covers of a book are the ‘lids’.

1896 N.Y. Sun in Catholic News 29 Feb. 2/7 I have never yet found ‘a good Catholic’ who would deny anything in ‘The Word of God’ from lid to lid.

4. Botany and Conchology. = operculum n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc

ungulaa1382

mantlea1475

trunk1661

diaphragm1665

lid1681

operculum1681

ear1688

beard1697

corslet1753

scar1793

opercle1808

pleura1826

pallium1834

byssus1835

cephalic ganglia1835–6

opercule1836

lingual ribbon1839

tube1839

cloak1842

test1842

collar1847

testa1847

rachis1851

uncinus1851

land-shell1853

mantle cavity1853

mesopodium1853

propodium1853

radula1853

malacology1854

gill comb1861

pallial cavity1862

tongue-tootha1877

mesopode1877

odontophore1877

pallial chamber1877

shell-gland1877

rasp1879

protopodium1880

ctenidium1883

osphradium1883

shell-sac1883

tooth-ribbon1883

megalaesthete1885

rachidian1900

scungille1953

tentacle-sheath-

the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > parts of

moutha1398

fimbria1752

calyptra1753

veil1760

lid1776

apophysis1785

operculum1788

peristoma1792

peristome1799

peristomium1806

hair-point1818

vaginula1818

perigynium1821

vaginule1821

gemma1830

paraphyllium1832

tympanum1832

perigon1857

pseudopodium1861

commissure1863

ocrea1863

cap1864

chaeta1866

struma1866

membranulet1891

pyxis1900

pseudopod1914

annulus-

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis 130 That little Shell called Blatta Byzantia, is the Operculum or Lid of the Purple.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 34 Many of them [sc. sea snails] are also furnished with a lid, which covers the mouth of the shell, and which opens and shuts at the animal's pleasure.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants 799 Lid, a cover to the tips of several of the Mosses; as in the Bogmoss.

1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) i. ii. 141 The singular form of leaf..which has been called a pitcher..consists of a fistular green body..closed at its extremity by a lid, termed the operculum.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 9/2 The urn itself [sc. of a moss] is closed by a lid, or operculum, and contains the spores.

1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses Gloss. 312 Lid, the terminal portion of the sporangium, which usually separates by a circular horizontal fissure.

5. Mining.

a. The roof or roof-stone covering a ‘pipe’; a lid-stone (lid-stone n. at Compounds 2).

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1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Livb Pipes never fail of Lids, it is that by which they are distinguished from Flats.

b. A flat piece of wood placed between the roof and the prop supporting it.

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1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words

1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Derbysh. Terms) 35 Cap or Lid, a flat piece of wood placed between the top of the punch and the roof of the mine.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

lid-elevator n.

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1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 490 The knob, or lid-elevator, is a pine attached to the lid by a brass pin.

lid-lash n.

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1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 12 Her eyes..Hot, glaz'd, and wide, with lid-lashes all sear.

C2.

lid-cells n. Botany (see quot.).

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1887 H. E. F. Garnsey tr. K. Goebel Outl. Classif. Plants 482 Lid-cells of archegonium [of a cryptogam], terminal cells of neck closing for a time canal of neck. Same as stigmatic cells.

lid-flower n. a tree or shrub of the genus Calyptranthes (family Myrtaceæ), in which the upper part of the calyx forms a lid.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > myrtles > [noun]

myrt?a1200

myrt-treea1382

mirtusc1384

myrtine?a1450

myrtle tree1548

myrtle1562

nerte1585

Australian tea1728

Bencoolen tea1728

New Zealand tea1728

Scotch gale1795

Callistemon1814

manuka1832

myrtal1846

mangrove-myrtle1847

swamp tea tree1862

lid-flower1866

Barringtonia1871

tea-broom1872

kanuka1906

myrtle-of-the-river1919

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Lid-flower, Calyptranthes.

lid-stone n. Mining (see quot. 1858).

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1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 265 Lid-Stones.

1851 T. Tapping Gloss. in Chron. Customs Lead Mines (E.D.S.) Rake,..that species of metallic vein which..is not covered with a lid-stone.

1858 A. C. Ramsay et al. Descr. Catal. Rock Specim. (1862) 63 (E.D.D.) Locally called ‘lid-stone’, from its lying on the top of the iron ore which occurs in the limestone of the Forest of Dean.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	lid
释义	lidn. Brit. /lɪd/, U.S. /lɪd/ Forms: Old English hlid(d, Middle English hlyd, Middle English lid(e, Middle English–1500s lidd(e, lydde, Middle English led(e, lyd(e, Middle English– lid. Etymology: Old English hlid neuter = Dutch lid, Old High German hlit (Middle High German lit, modern German in combination augenlid eyelid) lid, Old Norse hliđ gate, gateway, gap < Old Germanic hliđo^m, feminine weak-grade of root hlῑđ-to cover, in Old English be-hlídan, Old Saxon bihlîdan to cover, Old English on-hlídan, Old Saxon anhlîdan to open. 1. a. That which covers the opening at the top of a vessel or closes the mouth of an aperture; the upper part of a receptacle, which may be detached or turned upon a hinge in order to give access to the interior. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > lid lidc1000 coverclec1384 lampc1386 cover1459 covertil1463 coverturea1475 covering1479 cure1502 shed1612 bred1808 top1958 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 262 Ða ledon ða þegenas ðone Hælend ðæron, and mid hlide belucon ure ealra Alysend. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 53/213 So huy openeden þat lid of is swete toumbe þere. c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 41 Make a luytel whucche, Forte do in þat ilke blod..whon þe lust speke with me lift þe lide sone. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5618 In þis kist þe barn sco did. Quen it spird was wit þe lid [Trin. Cambr. lidde]. c1410 Sir Cleges 272 The porter to the panere went, And the led vppe he hentt. c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 73 Hele the potte with a close led, and stoppe hit aboutȝte with dogh or bater. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 437/2 The preest taketh the lydde of the chalys on whyche is the hoost. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xix. C And euery open vessel that hath no lydd nor couerynge, is vncleane. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xii. 9 Iehoiada the priest tooke a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 471. ¶8 Upon his lifting up the Lid of it [sc. Pandora's Box]..there flew out all the Calamities and Distempers incident to Men. 1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 589 Meantime some pyx to screen The full-grown pest, some lid to shut upon The goblin! 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom svi. 318 The outer layer of the lid is formed of earth precisely similar to that which surrounds the hole. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. x. 232 Lift the lid for me, it is too heavy for my arms. b. Applied to a door, shutter, board, or the like, closing an aperture. Now dialect or slang. Cf. port-lid n. at port n.³ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > fittings or ornaments of windows > shutter fall window1422 lock1440 window?c1500 lid1535 winnock-bred1546 window lid1591 counter-window1600 shut1611 shuttle1614 window-broad1628 window-shut1649 window shutter1665 window board1683 shutter1720 fallboard1742 jalousie1766 storm shutter1834 rain door1867 amado1873 sunbreak1891 brise-soleil1944 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > door of cupboard lid1890 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings vi. 4 In y^e house he made wyndowes, which might be opened and shut with lyddes. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 147 Stoppe thy Ouen-mouth with a lidde of Butter. a1697 J. Aubrey Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 48 Whereas his former Physitian shutt up his windowes and kept him in utter darknesse, he did open his windowe-lids and let in the light. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Lid, a cupboard door. 1942 ‘B. J. Ellan’ Spitfire! p. x Shut the lid, i.e., close the hood [over the pilot's cockpit]. c. The top crust of a pie. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > parts of pie lid1615 wall1747 1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments 68 At a vent in the top of the lid put in the same, and then set it into the Oven again. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery viii. 73 A Yorkshire Christmas-Pye. First make a good Standing Crust..then lay on your Lid, which must be a very thick one. †d. lid of the knee: the patella, kneecap. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of leg > [noun] > knee-cap eye of the kneea1400 rotulaa1400 knee-pan14.. whirling-bone14.. knee-bonec1410 pan?a1425 rotule?a1425 rowel?a1425 whirl-bone1530 patel1552 shive1598 kneeshive1599 lid of the knee1632 patella1634 cap1767 kneecap1869 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 462 The lids of my knees beeing crushed. e. In various slang or colloquial phrases with down, off, on, esp. to put the lid on, to bring to a close or climax; to conceal or ‘clamp down on’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to astintc700 stathea1200 atstuntc1220 to put an end toa1300 to set end ofa1300 batec1300 stanch1338 stinta1350 to put awayc1350 arrestc1374 finisha1375 terminec1390 achievea1393 cease1393 removec1405 terminate?a1425 stop1426 surceasec1435 resta1450 discontinue1474 adetermine1483 blina1500 stay1525 abrogatea1529 suppressa1538 to set in or at stay1538 to make stay of1572 depart1579 check1581 intercept1581 to give a stop toa1586 dirempt1587 date1589 period1595 astayc1600 nip1600 to break off1607 snape1631 sist1635 to make (a) stop of1638 supersede1643 assopiatea1649 periodizea1657 unbusya1657 to put a stop to1679 to give the holla to1681 to run down1697 cessate1701 end1737 to choke off1818 stopper1821 punctuate1825 to put a stopper on1828 to take off ——1845 still1850 to put the lid on1873 on the fritz1900 to close down1903 to put the fritz on something1910 to put the bee on1918 switch1921 to blow the whistle on1934 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > bring to an end or conclude [verb (transitive)] yendc1000 abatec1300 finec1300 endc1305 finisha1375 definec1384 terminec1390 achievea1393 out-enda1400 terminate?a1425 conclude1430 close1439 to bring adowna1450 terma1475 adetermine1483 determine1483 to knit up1530 do1549 parclose1558 to shut up1575 expire1578 date1589 to close up1592 period1595 includea1616 apostrophate1622 to wind off1650 periodizea1657 dismiss1698 to wind up1740 to put the lid on1873 to put the tin hat on something1900 to wash up1925 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > remain in hiding lurkc1300 to hide one's headc1475 mitch1558 nestle1567 to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578 to lay low1600 skulk1626 squat1658 to lie by1709 hide1872 to hole up1875 to lie low1880 to lie (also play) doggo1882 to hide out1884 to put the lid on1966 1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 467/1 In fact, excepting the ordinary saloons,..the ‘lid’ is down, secure and tight. 1964 J. P. Clark Three Plays 13 I hope he keeps The lid down on his wife for I fear She is fretting already. 1873 M. F. Mahony Chron. Fermors I. xii. 225 What wonder if the lid was constantly getting off her temper.1904 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 12 Sept. 16 Commissioner of Police McAdoo..has taken frequent occasions to deny that the ‘lid’ was off, to use the slang definition of a lax police administration.1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 96 ‘Playing with the lid off back there, ain't they?’ The sheriff's nod indicated the distant faro-table.1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 218 I'll back that opinion with the lid off.1926 A. Huxley Let. 14 Nov. (1969) 276 Then a vast book by the Italian Sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, very good..he really does take the lid off and show you the works.1927 R. A. Freeman Certain Dr. Thorndyke ii. xviii. 272 ‘My eye,’ exclaimed Miller... ‘This puts the lid on it—or rather takes the lid off.’1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) ii. 17 A few jubilant days when the lid was off following Liberation.1962 Which? May 160 (heading) 14 cars with the lid off.1968 Listener 19 Dec. 819/2 Are you the Editor of the Sunday Blast, the paper that ‘rips the lid off’?1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 4 Sept. 5/3 Inevitably when the lid blows off and riots and bloodshed and vandalism begin, the courts will be called on to do something effective about it.1974 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story ii. 15 What will happen, I ask myself, when the police take the lid off? What..will be the resulting smell?1909 Punch 30 June 452/2 Your astonishing letter puts the lid on it.1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 14 Lid (to put on), to put the lid on a town means to close the saloons, gambling houses and all other resorts except summer resorts.1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 77 Tarleton... Young man: youre a fool; but youve just put the lid on this job in a masterly manner.1914 H. A. Vachell Quinneys' ii. xx. 288 ‘Blackmail!’ gasped Quinney. ‘I prefer to call it a weapon, sir, which you are forcing me, sorely against my will, to use.’ ‘This puts the lid on.’1919 Punch 28 May 430/2 Miss Stevenson..is outside whistling for me, so I must put the lid on. Yours, Alec.1922 C. Sidgwick Victorian ix. 69 ‘That puts the lid on,’ said Jane... ‘You've done for yourself now.’1928 T. Gann Discov. Central Amer. xii. 168 Then came the earthquake, which must fairly have put the lid on, as far as Uk was concerned.1928 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 286 Inland, in the isolation, the lid is on, and the intense watchful malice of neighbours is infinitely worse than any police system.1930 J. Buchan Castle Gay xiv. 216 You can see for yourself how that would put the lid on it.1966 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 6 Aug. (1970) 410 Liz came in with a harried look, wanting to know what she could tell the press. She needed to ‘put the lid on’ if Luci had departed.1974 Times 6 Feb. 19/4 (heading) Putting the lid on distributors' profits. f. A hat, a cap. slang. (Cf. flip v. Phrases.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat hateOE nab-cheat?1536 nab1673 kelp1736 mitre1807 tile1813 gossamer1836 cady1846 roof1857 roofer1859 pancake1875 lid1896 nudger1902 tit for tat1925 titfer1927 sky1944 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap hurec1290 cady1846 lid1896 1896 G. Ade Artie i. 4 She meets me at the door, puts out the glad hand and says: ‘Hang up your lid and come into the game.’ 1916 Story-Teller Feb. 828/2 ‘Dash my wig—where's my lid...’ He snatched his cap up off the bunk. 1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 21 I dips me lid. 1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) Gloss. 125 Lid, the hat. To dip the lid, to raise the hat. 1929 P. G. Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking ix. 304 You've no idea what a blister you look in that lid. 1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays xlvi. 178 Keep that lid of yours off your bloody ears if you don't want to look like a rotten sheeny. 1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues i. 20 All the big-time whores wore big red velvet hats then with bird-of-paradise feathers on them. These lids were the thing. 1960 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing xii. 132 It is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire. g. (See quot. 1971.) slang. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis > specific quantity of lid1967 1967 Time 8 Sept. 18 The high price of ‘commercial’ marijuana ($10 to $15 for a ‘lid’ from which some 40 cigarettes can be rolled). 1968 J. D. MacDonald Pale Grey for Guilt (1969) xii. 152 We had almost two lids of Acapulco Gold. 1969 Rolling Stone 17 May 6/3 We've got this guy from Sand City we just caught with a lid. 1970 K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) iv. 43 He would be selling grass, meth, acid, lids, match boxes,..or mescaline. 1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 120 Lid, one ounce of marijuana, a quantity by which it is sold. 2. lid (of the eye) = eyelid n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > eyelid breec890 eye-breeOE eyelida1200 browc1200 lid (of the eye)c1220 palpebre?a1425 window1593 brow-lid1594 fin1604 under-lid1611 palpebra1634 cilia1715 eye-peeper1786 Madonna lid1863 eyewinker1923 c1220 Bestiary 26 Ðe leun ðanne he lieð to slepen Sal he neure luken ðe lides of hise eȝen. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. viii. 114 Euery byrde closyth the eye wyth the nether lydde. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. xxxv And of her eyen held the ledes downe. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3759 His loke was full louely, when ledys were opyn. 1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. B.ij It is needeful that some members be holden vp with a grystle, as the liddes of the eyes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 19 Sleepe shall neyther Night nor Day Hang vpon his Pent-house Lid . View more context for this quotation 1719 E. Young Paraphr. Job 378 When his [Leviathan's] burnish'd eyes Lift their broad lids, the morning seems to rise. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iv, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 22 I clos'd my lids and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 122 I straightly would commend the tears to creep From my charged lids. 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight ii. 23 The skin of the lids contains no fat. figurative.1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. v. sig. I^v Ere night shall close the lids of yon bright stars.1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xiviii, in Steps to Temple 67 The field's faire Eyes..saw no more, But shut their flowry lids for ever. 3. Each of the two sides or covers (of a book). Chiefly dialect and U.S. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover forel1393 surpelc1440 covering1459 coverturea1475 heeling1498 lid1585 cover1599 binding1648 book cover1649 case1750 album cover1839 bookcase1885 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 7/1 Inuolucrum, operculum libri, sittybus,..the couer or lid of a booke. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 395 Lid, the boarded cover of a book. 1864 A. B. Grosart Lambs all Safe (1865) 85 I might close the lids of the Bible. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) at Hilling In Leicestershire generally, however, the covers of a book are the ‘lids’. 1896 N.Y. Sun in Catholic News 29 Feb. 2/7 I have never yet found ‘a good Catholic’ who would deny anything in ‘The Word of God’ from lid to lid. 4. Botany and Conchology. = operculum n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc ungulaa1382 mantlea1475 trunk1661 diaphragm1665 lid1681 operculum1681 ear1688 beard1697 corslet1753 scar1793 opercle1808 pleura1826 pallium1834 byssus1835 cephalic ganglia1835–6 opercule1836 lingual ribbon1839 tube1839 cloak1842 test1842 collar1847 testa1847 rachis1851 uncinus1851 land-shell1853 mantle cavity1853 mesopodium1853 propodium1853 radula1853 malacology1854 gill comb1861 pallial cavity1862 tongue-tootha1877 mesopode1877 odontophore1877 pallial chamber1877 shell-gland1877 rasp1879 protopodium1880 ctenidium1883 osphradium1883 shell-sac1883 tooth-ribbon1883 megalaesthete1885 rachidian1900 scungille1953 tentacle-sheath- the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > parts of moutha1398 fimbria1752 calyptra1753 veil1760 lid1776 apophysis1785 operculum1788 peristoma1792 peristome1799 peristomium1806 hair-point1818 vaginula1818 perigynium1821 vaginule1821 gemma1830 paraphyllium1832 tympanum1832 perigon1857 pseudopodium1861 commissure1863 ocrea1863 cap1864 chaeta1866 struma1866 membranulet1891 pyxis1900 pseudopod1914 annulus- 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis 130 That little Shell called Blatta Byzantia, is the Operculum or Lid of the Purple. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 34 Many of them [sc. sea snails] are also furnished with a lid, which covers the mouth of the shell, and which opens and shuts at the animal's pleasure. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants 799 Lid, a cover to the tips of several of the Mosses; as in the Bogmoss. 1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) i. ii. 141 The singular form of leaf..which has been called a pitcher..consists of a fistular green body..closed at its extremity by a lid, termed the operculum. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 9/2 The urn itself [sc. of a moss] is closed by a lid, or operculum, and contains the spores. 1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses Gloss. 312 Lid, the terminal portion of the sporangium, which usually separates by a circular horizontal fissure. 5. Mining. a. The roof or roof-stone covering a ‘pipe’; a lid-stone (lid-stone n. at Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Livb Pipes never fail of Lids, it is that by which they are distinguished from Flats. b. A flat piece of wood placed between the roof and the prop supporting it. ΚΠ 1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Derbysh. Terms) 35 Cap or Lid, a flat piece of wood placed between the top of the punch and the roof of the mine. Compounds C1. General attributive. lid-elevator n. ΚΠ 1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 490 The knob, or lid-elevator, is a pine attached to the lid by a brass pin. lid-lash n. ΚΠ 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 12 Her eyes..Hot, glaz'd, and wide, with lid-lashes all sear. C2. lid-cells n. Botany (see quot.). ΚΠ 1887 H. E. F. Garnsey tr. K. Goebel Outl. Classif. Plants 482 Lid-cells of archegonium [of a cryptogam], terminal cells of neck closing for a time canal of neck. Same as stigmatic cells. lid-flower n. a tree or shrub of the genus Calyptranthes (family Myrtaceæ), in which the upper part of the calyx forms a lid. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > myrtles > [noun] myrt?a1200 myrt-treea1382 mirtusc1384 myrtine?a1450 myrtle tree1548 myrtle1562 nerte1585 Australian tea1728 Bencoolen tea1728 New Zealand tea1728 Scotch gale1795 Callistemon1814 manuka1832 myrtal1846 mangrove-myrtle1847 swamp tea tree1862 lid-flower1866 Barringtonia1871 tea-broom1872 kanuka1906 myrtle-of-the-river1919 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Lid-flower, Calyptranthes. lid-stone n. Mining (see quot. 1858). ΚΠ 1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 265 Lid-Stones. 1851 T. Tapping Gloss. in Chron. Customs Lead Mines (E.D.S.) Rake,..that species of metallic vein which..is not covered with a lid-stone. 1858 A. C. Ramsay et al. Descr. Catal. Rock Specim. (1862) 63 (E.D.D.) Locally called ‘lid-stone’, from its lying on the top of the iron ore which occurs in the limestone of the Forest of Dean. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022). lidv. Brit. /lɪd/, U.S. /lɪd/ Forms: Also Middle English lide. Etymology: < lid n. transitive. To cover with a lid. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > put a cover on lid?c1225 cover1382 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > a receptacle > with a lid lid?c1225 cover1382 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 68 & he hit huleð & liðeð [read lideð; c1230 Corpus lideð; a1250 Titus lides; a1250 Nero wrihð] swa þet he hit naut ne stinkeð. 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 104 Then lid your Pye, and bake it. 1913 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 729/2 The cans..then move along to be lidded. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Nov. 429 (caption) A case packed to the correct height is shown in the illustration. Severe damage may occur to fruit on the lidding press unless the pack is crowned correctly. 1959 Listener 22 Jan. 191/2 Lid the flan with pastry. 1960 Encounter Mar. 21/1 They lidded that box again. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1000v.?c1225
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