I. ˈlid noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hlid lid, gate, opening; akin to Old Frisian hlid cover, eyelid, Old High German lit, hlit cover, Old Norse hlith opening, door, gate, Gothic hleithra hut, tent, Old English hleonian, hlinian to lean — more at lean
1. : something that covers the opening of a hollow container (as a vessel or box) : a movable cover
a trunk lid
a piano lid
simple pine chests with lift lids — Antiques
2. : eyelid
3. dialect : either cover of a book
4.
a. : the operculum in mosses
b. : the cap of a pyxidium
5. slang : hat
in a slaphappy painter's cap that looked like an Italian officer's lid — Saul Bellow
6. : a force that confines or represses
if he doesn't clamp the lid down hard on his feelings — Constance Foster
specifically : an official curb or check
clapped a lid on further release of information
votes to clamp a four-month lid on wages and prices — Current History
the lid was clamped on … gambling in nightclubs — Newsweek
II. transitive verb
( lidded ; lidded ; lidding ; lids )
: to cover with or as if with a lid
the classified fruit is then lidded … ready for shipment — Westralian Farmers Co-op Gazette
she … lidded her eyes — Wright Morris
III. noun
: an ounce of marijuana