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lid

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nyindrou.

Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

lid (plural lids)

A metal lid

  1. The top or cover of a container.
  2. (slang) A cap or hat.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
      “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.
  3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
  4. (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
    • 2001, realsurf.com message board‎[2]:
      Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
    • 2003 August, Kneelo Knews‎[3]:
      the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
  5. (biology) An operculum or other lid-like cover.
  6. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
  7. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
  8. Clipping of eyelid.
    • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2:
      But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      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 […].
  9. (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
  10. (figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
  1. (Liverpool, slang) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
  2. (African-American Vernacular) The sky.
  3. (African-American Vernacular) One's mind.

top or cover

lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)

  1. (transitive) To put a lid on (something).
    Antonym: unlid

to put a lid on something

  1. ^ Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Lid”, in “False Pronunciation”, in A Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech‎[1], Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co, →OCLC, page 85.

  2. Major, Clarence (1994), Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang, Puffin Books, →ISBN

From Dutch lid.

lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)

  1. member (of a group or club)
  2. member, limb

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.

lid m inan

  1. people

Declension of lid (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

| | singular | | | ------------ | ---------------------------------- | | nominative | lid | | genitive | lidu | | dative | lidu | | accusative | lid | | vocative | lide | | locative | lidu | | instrumental | lidem |

From Old Norse hlít.

lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)

  1. trust

lid

  1. imperative of lide

From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n or ledeken n)

  1. member (of a group)
    Synonym: lidmaat
  2. member, limb (extremity of a body)
    Synonym: ledemaat
  3. member, penis
    Synonym: penis
  4. (law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)
  5. (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]
    Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid

From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)

  1. (rare) lid, cover

From Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

lid (plural **lid-lid)

  1. (colloquial) member (of a group)
    Synonym: anggota

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

li’d

  1. nit (egg of a louse)

From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

lid (plural liddis)

  1. A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.
  2. The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.
  3. The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.
  4. (rare) The top layer of a pastry dish.

lid

  1. imperative of lide

lid

  1. present tense of lide
  2. imperative of lide

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lid f (plural lidi)

  1. (pre-1917 or dialectal) a sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest. alternative form of li

From Proto-Germanic *lidą (“followers, flock”).

lid n

  1. ship, vessel
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

From Proto-Germanic *liþuz, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.

lid m or n

  1. member

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).

lid f (plural lides)

  1. lawsuit
    Synonym: litigio
  2. fight
    Synonym: lucha

Inherited from Old Swedish liþ, from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. Cognate of Latin clīvus, Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma), Old English hliþ.

lid c

  1. A slope of a hill.

lid

  1. imperative of lida

From German Lied.

lid (genitive lida, plural lids)

  1. song

lid

  1. soft mutation of llid

Mutated forms of llid

radical soft nasal aspirate
llid lid unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Proto-Germanic *liþuz. The plural leden is from Dutch.

lid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)

  1. limb, member (of the body)
  2. penis
  3. part (of a whole)

lid n (plural leden)

  1. member (of a group)

From Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

lid n (plural lidden, diminutive lidsje)

  1. lid, cover
  2. short for eachlid (“eyelid”)