Liden.

/lʌɪd/

Forms: Old English hlýda, Middle English lud(e, Middle English lyde, 1600s leed(e, leid, 1600s– lide.

Etymology: Old English hlýda ; perhaps literally ‘noisly’, cognate with hlúd loud adj.Earlier currency of the compound Lide-month is perhaps implied by G. Hickes's record of the Old English month names (perhaps relying on a lost manuscript):1703 G. Hickes Thesaurus I. 215 (table) Martius... Hlyda vel hlydmonað.Although it is included in Bosworth-Toller and later dictionaries of Old English, the word is apparently not attested in any extant manuscript from the Old English period.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

The month of March.

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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > March

Lidec1000

MarchlOE

Martii1439

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 152 Þone monað martius þe menne hatað hlyda.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 228 Se æresta frigedæg þe man sceal fæsten is on hlydan.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11990 And þe teþe day of lud in to londone he drou.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 12040 In þe monþe of lude.

c1325 Poem times Edw. II (Percy) xxxv Cattel cometh & goth As wederis don in Lyde.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Leede, an olde name of the moneth of March.

a1697 J. Aubrey Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 13 The vulgar in the West of England doe call the month of March, Lide.

1866 Jrnl. Royal Instit. Cornwall Oct. 2 132 Friday in Lide is the name given to the first Friday in March... I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: ‘Ducks wan't lay till they've drink'd lide water’.

1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 91 Lide, the month of March.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

Lide-month n.

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1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Leed, or Leid-moneth, so called, saith Somner, quasi Loud-moneth, from the old Saxon word Hyld, a noise or tumult.

Lide-water n.

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1866Lide water [see main sense].

Lide-flower n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil

daffodilly1538

daffadowndilly1573

yellow crow-bells1578

daffodil1592

Lide-flower1609

Lide-lily1609

trumpet1705

daffy1777

Lent rose1796

chalice-flower1824

Lent lilya1825

Lenten lily1874

dilly1878

Golden Spur1886

trumpet daffodil1895

King Alfred1899

daff1915

bell-rose-

1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie vi. sig. G7^v Daffadil, lide-flowre [1623 Lide-lilie, 1634 Lide-lilli], blackthorne, &c.

C2.

Lide-lily n. the Lent lily, Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus (Britten & Holland Plant-n. 1886).

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