Lid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Lid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Lid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lid n either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye; "his lids would stay open no longer" Synonym(s): eyelid, lid, palpebra a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.; "he raised the piano lid" headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim Synonym(s): hat, chapeau, lid
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lid \Lid\ (l[icr]d), n. [AS. hlid, fr. hl[c6]dan (in comp.) to cover, shut; akin to OS. hl[c6]dan (in comp.), D. lid lid, OHG. hlit, G. augenlid eyelid, Icel. hli[edh] gate, gateway. [root]40.] 1. That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk. 2. The cover of the eye; an eyelid. --Shak. Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid. --Byron. 3. (Bot.) (a) The cover of the spore cases of mosses. (b) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian {Eucalypti}. (c) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.