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lide

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/laɪd/

Definition of lide

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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  1. (dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
    “"Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play."”
    “I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay until they've a drink'd lide water.'”
    “Bullokar's spelling is retained: bardes, glinne ("glen"), leede ("lide"), narre, palliard, palliardise, sprent, viands, whilome”
    “And so it was that in the month of Lide (the villagers' name for Martius) a great wolf hunt was to be held in Suuremõisa once again, as soon as the ice across the strait of Soela had begun to thin and could no longer bear so much as a wolf's paw, […]”
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  1. (dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
    “"Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play."”
    “I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay until they've a drink'd lide water.'”
    “Bullokar's spelling is retained: bardes, glinne ("glen"), leede ("lide"), narre, palliard, palliardise, sprent, viands, whilome”
    “And so it was that in the month of Lide (the villagers' name for Martius) a great wolf hunt was to be held in Suuremõisa once again, as soon as the ice across the strait of Soela had begun to thin and could no longer bear so much as a wolf's paw, […]”
  2. A surname.

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Lyde, from Old English hlȳda, from hlȳdan (“to make noise”) + -a (agentive suffix), literally “noise-maker”; thus the only Germanic month name to survive in Modern English. Compare loud, and more distantly listen, slave.

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