[f. prec. vb. OE. had ʓecíd.]

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  † 1.  Chiding; quarrelling, wrangling. Obs.

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c. 1325.  Body & Soul, in Map’s Poems (1841), 342. Mid me to holde chide and cheste.

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  † 2.  An angry rebuke, a reproof. Obs. or arch.

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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.

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1666.  Bunyan, Grace Ab., ¶ 174. A kind of chide for my proneness to desperation.

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  3.  transf. ‘Brawling’ (of streams). rare.

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1730.  Thomson, Autumn, 1265. The chide of streams And hum of bees.

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