Meaning of leed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Language; tongue.
   Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
2. A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal
3. Alternative spelling of lede (“a man; a person”).
   alt-of, alternative, obsolete
4. Acronym of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a system to categorise the level of environmentally sustainable construction in sustainable buildings.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
5. Acronym of low-energy electron diffraction.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
6. A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
   Scotland, UK, dialectal
7. A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal
8. The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal
9. Patter; rigmarole.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal

Examples

“& after to callice hee [Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey] arriued, / like a noble Leed of high degree, / & then to Turwin soone he hyed, / there he thought to haue found King Henery; […]”

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