Middle English Dictionary Entry
lid n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lid n. Also lide, lidde & led(e. |
| Etymology | OE hlid |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The cover of a pot, basket, coffin, chest, etc.; a lid; ~ of the wesaunt, the uvula, ?the epiglottis; (b) the door or covering of a tomb, the covering of a pit; (c) ~ holt, ?wood for covering masons' molds; (d) the top covering of a pie or pasty, crust; (e) an eyelid; ~ of eie, lides of eien.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)41 : Make a luytel whucche..whon þe lust speke with me, lift þe lide sone.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)48a/a : Þe Instrumentis of þe voys ben meny..and som of þese fongiþ þe voys, as þe longen..And som ordeyneþ þe voys, as þe lidde of þe woosoun [L vuula], þat makeþ þe vois fair & strong.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5618 : In þis kist þe barn [Moses] sco did; Quen it spird was wit þe lid..Sco laid it on þe water.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)48a/a : Patena: lede of a schalys.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)141b/a : Camomille in a pot ycouered & luted in þe couertour or lidde.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)303 : Lyde, wesselle hyllynge: Operculum.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3384 : Þe bysshop toke vp þe lede of þe chest anone.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)73 : Hele the potte with a close led.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30173 : A grett arke with a lyd.
- (a1475) Recipe Painting(2) in Archaeol.J.1 (Sln 73)152 : Loke that thou have a lid of tree upon the pottis mouth weel y-closid.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)73b : A lydde: Operculum.
- (1476-78) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.3232 : Item, for the lyd of the long Chest.
- a1500(a1400) Cleges (Adv 19.1.11)278 : The porter to the panere went, And the led [vr. lyde] vppe he hentt.
b
- c1300 SLeg.11000 Virg.(LdMisc 108)166 : Huy..heuen up þe þrouwes lid and founden hire ligge þer.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1796 : Oure lordes aungel..to þe sepulcre he wende and ouer-turnde þe ston Þat was þe lyd.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14318 : He bad þe graf suld be vndon, Of þe tumb tak of þe lidd.
- a1425 Shrewsbury Frag.(Shrw 6)3/29 : Quis reuoluet nobis lapidem..Sum socoure sone he wil vs send, At help to lift away þis lid.
- a1450 Of alle þe ioyus (Cmb Dd.11.89)317 : In linnen cloth they wounden Hym anon; In to a graue they Hym bere And helede Hym with a lyd.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)157/12 : He seyȝ þe prynce of helle sytten on a pyt-syde, wryed wyth a lyde of tre.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.1943 : They fonde a tombe of stoon; The Aungell badde hem lyfte vp that lydde.
- a1500(c1386) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)72 : Wyȝt werkemen..Putten prises þerto..And were þe lydde never so large, þai laide hit by sone.
c
- (1324) in Salzman Building in Engl.247 : [Three] bord de lidholt..[for masons' molds].
- (1330) Rot.Roberti de Hillum in Topham Acc.Chapel.St.Stephen (1834) [OD col.]66 : Pro 3 bord. de quercu, vocat. lidholt empt. pro dict. mold. inde faciend..1 s. 6 d.
- (1333) in Salzman Building in Engl.247 : Lydholt [boards, 7 ft. by 18 in., costing 6 d.].
d
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)47 : Floryssche þin cofyns withynne & with-owte & hele hem with þin ledys & late hem bake.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)772 : Þo sewer..With baken mete yf he seruyd be..Þo lydes vp-rered..Þe past or pye he sayes with-inne.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.38 : In myddes þo lydde an tuel þou make; Set hit in þo ovyn for to bake.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)59 : Tak brod coffyns with lowe lidds as thyn as ye may dryf them and fill them with the stuf and bak them.
e
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)16 : Ðe leun..Sal he neure luken ðe lides of hise egen.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)245a/b : It..helpeþ aȝeins oþere yueles of þe lyddes of þe yhen.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)312a/a : Fisshe haþ noon lydes, and þerfore þe spirit visible is awey y-sched.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)2007 : Þaȝ he lowkez his liddez, ful lyttel he slepes.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.6851 : Hir hed she gan enclyne..And of hir eyen helde þe lydes down.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)53b/b : Pupilla: lede of eye.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3759 : His loke was full louely when ledys were opyn.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)965 : Þe kyng..A litill liftis vp his liddis & lokis in his face.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)13a/b : It ys nedeful summe membris to ben holden vp wiþ a gristle, as þe lidde of þe yȝe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Hnt.HM.64 Artist.Recipes (Hnt HM 64) 277/17 : When thou remouyste vp the ledde a redde smoke will come owte of the vessell.
Note: Additional quote, sense (a).
Note: New spelling.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. lid.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. lid of the wosen.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (e)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. lid of the eye.