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noun

Lid n.

That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.

The cover of the eye; an eyelid. "Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid."

(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.

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Etymology of 'Lid'

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"Lid" Quotes from Famous Books

... his hands on the top of the stone and lifted. As he had half expected, it separated at the horizontal groove. The top of the stone was the lid of a box. Inside ...

— Dead Man's Planet • William Morrison

... fright. He bounced a few times to and fro about the room, then seated himself as if to enjoy his supper at the table, and they could plainly hear how he pulled the dish to him. Immediately he set it, as though in ill humour, hard down again, laid hold of the can, pressed up the lid, but straightway let it clap sharply to again. He now fell to his work; he wiped the table, next the legs of the table, carefully down, and then swept, as with a besom, the door diligently. When this was ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI. • Various

... the limit!" the girl said. She was so spent that her feet seemed to have weights attached to them as she dragged herself toward the trunk. Reaching it, she dropped, rather than sat, upon the rounded top. No sooner had she touched the lid, however, than she bounded up as if she had received an electric shock. It seemed that something inside the trunk had given a leap, and that the great box had quivered under her. At the same instant the door of number 658 was thrown open. Beverley ...

— The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... going to see for myself. Oh-h-h!" She had the lid off, and was clasping to her breast a mass of soft brown fur. "Oh, General, you dear thing! You sha'n't ever go to prison again." She smothered her father in the coat and a rapturous embrace, causing him to protest mildly. Her mother's gift of a bracelet watch also evoked another ...

— Marjorie Dean High School Freshman • Pauline Lester

... climbed the oval stairway and emerged on the platform under the cupola the dawn was just about to break. The Gray Mahatma raised the stone lid with an ease that betrayed unsuspected strength and dropped it into place, where it fitted so exactly that no one ignorant of the secret would ever have guessed the existence of a ...

— Caves of Terror • Talbot Mundy

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