▪ I. † shride, v.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 scr{yacu}dan, scridan, scrédan, 2–3 scrude(n, 3 shridenn, screde(n, sride(n, 3–4 s(c)hrude(n, 4 schride, scruyde, schrede, ssrede, shride; 3rd sing. pres. ind. (contracted) 1 scr{yacu}t(t, 2 scred, 3 shrut. pa. tense 1 scr{yacu}dde, 2 scridde, scredde, 3 schrudde, srid, sredde, 4 shrudde, schredde, schred(e, schridde. pa. pple. 2 ȝescrid, 2–3 iscrud, 3 ischrud, shrid(d, 3–4 schred, 4 ischrid, yshred, yssred, shred, shrud.
[OE. scr{yacu}dan = ON. skr{yacu}ða:—OTeut. *skrūđjan, f. skrūđ- (see shroud n.1).]
1. trans. To clothe, provide with clothes.
| 971 Blickl. Hom. xviii. 213 He wolde..earme frefran..& nacode scrydan. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 36 Ic wæs nacud & ᵹe me scryddon [c 1160 Hatton Gosp. scredden]. a 1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Hi were mid þon fellen ȝescridde. Ibid. 233 He us fett and scred. c 1200 Ormin 137 Shridd wiþþ haliȝ shrud Ȝede he till Godess allterr. a 1225 Ancr. R. 66 Monie cumeð to ou ischrud mid lombes fleose, & beoð wode wulues. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 379 Ðor-wið he ben nu boðen srid. 13.. K. Alis. 6803 (Bodl. MS.), In a lyouns skyn he was yshred. c 1386 Chaucer Clerk's T. 322 Þis mayde bright of hew Fro foot to heed þay schredde han al newe. c 1400 St. Alexius 565 (Laud 463) Þat liche þei let wake & shride, wiþ pal & wiþ oþer pride. |
| refl. c 1000 ælfric Deut. xxii. 5 Ne scride nan wif hiᵹ mid wæpmannes reafe ne wæpman mid wifmannes reafe. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 193 Mid þos wapnes dauid shrude him. a 1225 Ancr. R. 302 Þis was bitocned þuruh þet Iudit schrudde hire mid helidawene weaden. a 1300 K. Horn 840 Cutberd ros of bedde Wiþ armes he him schredde. 1340 Ayenb. 258 Þe queade riche þet zuo ofte ham ssredeþ. a 1400 Launfal 416 Launfal yn purpure gan hym schrede. |
b. transf. and fig.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke xii. 28 Ᵹyf god scrytt [c 1160 Hatton scrit] þæt hiᵹ..swa mycele ma god scryt eow. c 1200 Ormin 3673 He þat all þiss middellærd Onn alle wise shrideþþ. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 23 Til god srid him in manliched. Ibid. 1878 Salamon findin is [viz. idols and gold rings] sal, And his temple sriðen wið-al. 13.. in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 269 Wite blisse in heuene I schal þe scruyde. |
2. ? To ward off.
| c 1400 Anturs of Arth. 20 (Thornton MS.) Schruedede in a schorte cloke, þat the rayne schrydes. |
Hence † ˈshriding vbl. n.
| 1340 Ayenb. 258 O moche is he fol..þet of his ssredinge is proud. Ibid., Þe ssredinge of his bodye. |
▪ II. † shride, v.2 Obs.
Also 4–5 schride, schryde.
[? repr. OE. *scr{yacu}dan (:—*scr{uacu}djan), f. *scr{uacu}d shroud n.3]
trans. To lop or prune (trees). Chiefly in vbl. n., concr. = prunings, loppings. Cf. shroud v.2
| 1388 Wyclif Song of Sol. ii. 12 Flouris apperiden in oure lond, the tyme of schridyng is comun. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 242/1 Hooke to hewe wode, or schrydynge. 1450 Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 90 Schrydyng of treyes yn church hay j{supd}. 1457 Ibid. 99 To the chorchemen for schryde wode yn the chorchehay, j{supd}. 1553 Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 248 b, [Gifts] of shriding of trees, and of al manner of vnderwoode. 1825 Jennings Obs. Dial. W. Eng., Shride, to cut off wood from the sides of trees; to cut off wood from trees generally. |