Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of lid.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word lids.

Examples

  • Tecs and lids is just divide and rule, and we know how well that worked for us when we ruled half the world. on February 7, 2010 at 6: 41 pm Dungbeetle

    Through The Looking Glass « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • He told me that regular cleaning of the eye lids is recommend and that I should not strain too much.

    Blog De Ganz | Archive | June 2008

  • Her elders swept incendiaries from the rooftops with brooms and dustbin lids, while others refused to stand for God Save The Queen, and bitched that good old Neville was getting an unfair shake.

    "We apologise for any inconvenience caused." Not a sheep 2008

  • Carefully remove the jars and screw lids from the boiling water with tongs and set them on the towel.

    Toast: Lindy 2005

  • Carefully remove the jars and screw lids from the boiling water with tongs and set them on the towel.

    White Peaches and Basil Preserves Lindy 2005

  • And some dustbin lids to use as symbols for the mad percussive effects.

    WorldCon Schedule Hal Duncan 2005

  • The troubled confusion of the first day of the uprising produced many conflicting accounts and several mistakes as newspapers scrambled to bring their readers reports on the uprising and pictures and eyewitness accounts of it. 13 A more accurate picture of who had done the shooting and who had been armed with stones for weapons and dustbin lids for protection would emerge only later, although the exact circumstances and chronology of events were almost immediately the subject of heated debates.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • My eyes fluttered and the canopy of my lids was a cool green.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • My eyes fluttered and the canopy of my lids was a cool green.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • Near the inner surface of the lids is a row of twenty or thirty glands, known as the

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.