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

Covered with a lid. Keats.

Same Ledge.[Obs.] Spenser.

Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful. A lidless watcher of the public weal. Tennyson.

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument Whewell.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

Of or pertaining to the Annelida. -- n.

A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

Of the nature of an annelid.

A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

One who backslides.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

See Andromede.

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

A kind of meteor; a bolis.

Hot; burning; ardent. [Obs.] Bailey.

Heat. [Obs.]