ppl. a. Also 1 ʓehlidad, -od, ʓehleodad, 4 ilided. [OE. ʓehlidod as if pa. pple. of a vb. *hlidian or *ʓehlidian, f. hlid (ʓehlid) LID sb. In mod. use a new formation on LID sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. Having a lid; covered with or as with a lid.
c. 900. Bæda’s Hist., IV. xxi. [xix.] (1890), 320. Seo [sc. þruh] wæs swilce eac ʓerisenlice ʓehleodad [v.r. ʓehlidod, -ad] mid ʓelice stane.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 58. Þes put he hat þat heo beo euer ilided & iwrien.
1675. Evelyn, Terra (1676), 146. Woodden-Cases made like Coffins (but not contracted at the extreams nor lidded).
1821. Coleridge, Lett., Convers., &c. II. 21. The tropical trees … produce their own lidded vessels full of water from air and dew.
1890. J. Service, Thir Notandums, xi. 28. Maist o’ the gentlemen wore dark blue … coats…, their waistcoats deep in the lidded pooch.
b. Mining. (Cf. LID sb. 5.)
1747. Hooson, Miner’s Dict., L iv b. Though we may in some Parts of this Work seem to assert that Veins are not Lidded, yet … they may be so, but more especially on their Dip.
1847. Halliwell, s.v., The top of the bearing part of a pipe is said to be lidded when its usual space is contracted to a small compass or width. A mining term.
c. Bot. and Zool. (Cf. LID sb. 4.)
1776–96. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), I. 357. Capsule … lidded, and opening transversely.
1899. Cagney, trans. Jaksch’s Clin. Diagn., vi. (ed. 4), 224. The eggs [of Distoma sinense] are oval, lidded, and spiked at the opposite end.
2. Of the eyes: Having lids, covered with lids. Chiefly with adj. or adv. prefixed, as half-, heavy-, high-lidded.
1818. Keats, Lines written in Highlands, 21. But the forgotten eye is still fast lidded to the ground. Ibid. (1820), Cap & Bells, xx. Poems (1889), 527. One minute’s while his eyes remain’d Half lidded, piteous, languid, innocent.
1879. G. Macdonald, Sir Gibbie, III. ix. 151. Duff gave him a high-lidded glance, vouchsafing no reply.
1886. J. W. Graham, Neæra (1887), II. iii. 146. [Eyes] somewhat heavy lidded and slow moving.
