[f. prec. vb. OE. had ʓecíd.]
† 1. Chiding; quarrelling, wrangling. Obs.
c. 1325. Body & Soul, in Map’s Poems (1841), 342. Mid me to holde chide and cheste.
† 2. An angry rebuke, a reproof. Obs. or arch.
1538. G. Browne, To Ld. Cromwell, in Phenix, I. 123. The Prior and the Dean … heed not my words: therefore send … a chide to them and their Canons.
1666. Bunyan, Grace Ab., ¶ 174. A kind of chide for my proneness to desperation.
3. transf. ‘Brawling’ (of streams). rare.
1730. Thomson, Autumn, 1265. The chide of streams And hum of bees.
