Associations to the word «Lid»

Wiktionary

LID, noun. The top or cover of a container.
LID, noun. (slang) A cap or hat.
LID, noun. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
LID, noun. (surfing) (slang) (chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
LID, noun. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
LID, noun. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
LID, noun. (abbreviation) Eyelid.
LID, verb. To put a lid on something.

Dictionary definition

LID, noun. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye; "his lids would stay open no longer".
LID, noun. 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".
LID, noun. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats