Lide

Definitions

1. March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
   dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
2. A surname.

Equivalents

Examples

“"Eat⟳ Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play⟳."”

“I have⟳ heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay⟳ until they've a drink'd lide water.'”

“Bullokar's spelling is retained: bardes, glinne ("glen"), leede ("lide"), narre, palliard, palliardise, sprent, viands, whilome”

“And so it was that in the month of Lide (the villagers' name⟳ for Martius) a great wolf hunt was to be held in Suuremõisa once again, as soon as the ice across the strait of Soela had begun to thin and could no longer bear⟳ so much as a wolf's paw, […]”

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