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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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66 words match “LID”

TRAPDOOR n. 2 definitions

A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

ashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.

To peep under. "The flame . . . would underpeep her lids." [R.] Shak.

UP adv. 13 definitions

used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up. And when the sun was up, they were scorched. Matt. xiii. 6. Those that were up themselves kept others low. Spenser. Helen was up -- was she Shak. Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen un…

VALANCE n. 3 definitions

The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.

VALVE n. 7 definitions

A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.