Lide Obs. exc. dial.
(laɪd)
Forms: 1 hl{yacu}da, 3 lud(e, 4 lyde, 7 leed(e, leid, 7– lide.
[OE. hl{yacu}da; perh. lit. ‘noisly’, cogn. w. hl{uacu}d loud.]
The month of March.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 152 Þone monað martius þe menne hatað hlyda. Ibid. 228 Se æresta friᵹedæᵹ þe man sceal fæsten is on hlydan. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11990 And þe teþe day of lud in to londone he drou. Ibid. 12040 In þe monþe of lude. c 1325 Poem times Edw. II (Percy) xxxv, Cattel cometh & goth As wederis don in Lyde. 1616 Bullokar, Leede, an olde name of the moneth of March. 1686–7 Aubrey Rem. Gentilism & Judaism (1881) 13 The vulgar in the West of England doe call the month of March, Lide. 1866 Jrnl. R. Instit. Cornw. Oct. II. 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 E. Cornwall Gloss. |
b. attrib. and
Comb., as
lide-month,
lide-water;
lide-flower,
-lily, the Lent lily,
Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus (Britten & Holland
Plant-n. 1886).
| 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. vi. G vij b. Daffadil, *lide⁓flowre [1623 *Lide-lilie, 1634 Lide-lilli], blackthorne, &c. |
| 1696 Phillips (ed. 5), Leed, or *Leid-moneth, so called, saith Somner, quasi Loud-moneth, from the old Saxon word Hyld, a noise or tumult. 1866 *Lide water [see above]. |