Lide

alternative obsolete Leede

1. dialectalobsoleteuncountableMarch (third month of the Gregorian calendar)

   "Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play."

   1686-1687, John Aubrey, edited by James Britten, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (Lansdowne MS. 231), London: W. Satchell, Peyton, and Co., published 1881, page 13

   3 more examples

   I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay until they've a drink'd lide water.'

   1866, Thomas Q. Couch, “Popular Antiquities: Tinner Folk Lore”, in Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, number VI, Truro: Royal Institution of Cornwall, page 132

   Bullokar's spelling is retained: bardes, glinne ("glen"), leede ("lide"), narre, palliard, palliardise, sprent, viands, whilome

   1970, Jürgen Schäfer, “The Hard Word Dictionaries: A Re-Assessment”, in Leeds Studies in English, volume n.s. 4, Leeds: University of Leeds, →ISSN, page 47

   And so it was that in the month of Lide (the villagers' name for Martius) a great wolf hunt was to be held in Suuremõisa once again, as soon as the ice across the strait of Soela had begun to thin and could no longer bear so much as a wolf's paw, […]

   2005, Johanna Sinisalo, The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy, page 12

plural Lides

1. A surname.