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[ UK /lˈɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
  2. a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening at the top of a box, chest, jar, pan, etc.
    he raised the piano lid
  3. either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
    his lids would stay open no longer

How To Use lid In A Sentence

  • As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
  • A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
  • I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
  • I've been overdoing things a bit recently. I really need a holiday.
  • Some retailers, including Sears, have already held some "door-buster" early-morning sales, which makes Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving that's looked upon as a kick-off to the holiday shopping season -- a little "grayer," he said. Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed
  • Some paragliding pilots liken their sport to paddling a Class V river while blindfolded.
  • Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
  • Ingundis; and Leovigild, whose two sons, Hermenegild and Recared, were the issue of a former marriage.] [Footnote 128: Iracundiae furore succensa, adprehensam per comam capitis puellam in terram conlidit, et diu calcibus verberatam, ac sanguins cruentatam, jussit exspoliari, et piscinae immergi. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
  • The bolide probably prolonged and intensified the change, and may have weighed heavily in favor of mammals or birds and against non - avian dinosaurs.
  • Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
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