Sc. Forms: 6 quhyd, 8–9 whid, whud. [? a. ON. hviða squall = OE. hwiþa.]
† 1. A squall, blast of wind. Obs.
1590. Burel, in Watson, Coll. Sc. Poems, II. (1709), 24. The wind, with mony quhyd, Maist bitterly thair blew.
2. A quick noiseless movement, esp. of a hare.
In or wi’ a whid, in a trice.
1719. Ramsay, 2nd Answ. to Hamilton, i. Wi’ a Whid, She’ll rin red-wood.
1785. Burns, To W. S*****n, xii. Jinkin hares, in amorous whids.
1788. R. Galloway, Glasgow Fair, II. vi. He lent a blow at Jonny’s eye, That rais’d it, in a whid.
