Lid
[lɪd]
Definition
(noun.) a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.; 'he raised the piano lid'.
Edited by Blair--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
(n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
(n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
(n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.
(n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Edited by Cecilia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cover, covercle.[2]. Eyelid.
Checker: Norris
Definition
n. a cover: that which shuts a vessel: the cover of the eye.—adjs. Lid′ded having a lid or lids; Lid′less without lid or lids.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- This he placed in the middle of the floor and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He ran his thumbnail around the edge of the box and, opening the lid, handed them to Pablo who took half a dozen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As I glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the envelope. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- As the lid is closed, the picture becomes darkened, and by the gradual removal of the screen at the same time, it is changed into a transparency. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The identical place, my dear Sir,' replied Perker, tapping the lid of his snuff-box. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Fill the space between the two with sawdust packed closely and cover with a heavy lid made to fit neatly inside the larger box. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I've seen her take the lid off, to pay a bill, many and many a time. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The pans should be made of stout zinc one-half inch deep on the inside, with a lid or cover. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- If a copper lid were used as a foot warmer, it would give the feet only . Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- On the white lid and dark lashes of her downcast eye trembled all that is graceful in the sense of half-painful, half-pleasing shame. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She's not dead: her eye-lids are quivering, and here's wet tears a-coming down her cheeks. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The same girl who feeds the gum into the wrapping machine closes the lids of the boxes and places them on a packing table by her side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was conscious that Madame Olenska was looking at him under lowered lids. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Mrs. Dorset, examining her between lowered lids, met this with the immediate query: Who told you that? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed senselessness! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He looked her over in his searching fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Without her market-basket, which is a sort of wicker well with two flapping lids, she never stirs abroad. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was an excited clamour of voices, a clinking of mug-lids, a great crying of 'Prosit--Prosit! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Not so Idris; her first glance was for her brother; she took his hand, she kissed his eye-lids, and hung over him with looks of compassion and love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Typed by Lillian