Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 hlýda, 3 lud(e, 4 lyde, 7 leed(e, leid, 7– lide. [OE. hlýda; perh. lit. ‘noisy,’ cogn. w. hlúd LOUD.] The month of March.

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c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., III. 152. Þone monað martius þe menne hatað hlyda. Ibid., 228. Se æresta friʓedæʓ þe man sceal fæsten is on hlydan.

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1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 11990. And þe teþe day of lud in to londone he drou. Ibid., 12040. In þe monþe of lude.

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c. 1325.  Poem times Edw. II. (Percy), xxxv. Cattel cometh & goth As wederis don in Lyde.

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1616.  Bullokar, Leede, An olde name of the moneth of March.

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1686–7.  Aubrey, Rem. Gentilism & Judaism (1881), 13. The vulgar in the West of England doe call the month of March, Lide.

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1866.  Jrnl. R. Instit. Cornw., Oct. II. 132. Friday in Lide is the name given to the first Friday in March…. I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: ‘Ducks wan’t lay till they’ve drink’d lide water.’

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1880.  E. Cornwall Gloss.

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  b.  attrib. and Comb., as lide-month, -water; lide-flower, -lily, the Lent lily, Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus (Britten & Holland, Plant-n., 1886).

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1609.  C. Butler, Fem. Mon., vi. G vij b. Daffadil, *lide-flowre [1623 *Lide-lilie, 1634 Lide-lilli], blackthorne, &c.

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1696.  Phillips (ed. 5), Leed, or *Leid-moneth, so called, saith Somner, quasi Lond-moneth, from the old Saxon word Hlyd, a noise or tumult.

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1866.  *Lide water [see above].

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