▪ I. † yede, v. Obs.
Also 6 yead, 6–7 yeed(e, 7 yed.
[A pseudo-archaism of 16th cent. poets and their imitators; yede, pa. tense of go (see yode) used erron. as an infin.]
intr. To go, proceed.
| 1563 Sackville Induct. Mirr. Mag. xxx, Yeding forth, anone An horrible lothly lake we might discerne. a 1578 Drant (Webster) Years yead away, and faces fair deflower. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 145 They wander at wil, and stray at pleasure, And to theyr foldes yead at their owne leasure. 1590 ― F.Q. i. xi. 5 Then bad the knight his Lady yede aloofe. 1602 Carew Cornwall 116 Downeuet..(perhaps so called) of downe yeeding, as hauing a steep hill. 1614 Gorges Lucan v. 174 Yet she, poore soule, was sore adread Into the horrid cell to yed. 1633 Fisher Fuimus Troes iii. ix, Vnneath thilke borrells May well ne yede, ne stand. 1768 Downman Land of Muses xii, Early the morn we will forth yede yfere. |
▪ II. yede, ȝede
obs. pa. tense of go: see yode.