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Without a lid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year,” Epode II, in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle & Messrs. Robinsons, 2nd edition, p. 15, [...] yet, as she lies By livid fount, or roar of blazing stream, If ever to her lidless dragon eyes, O Albion! thy predestin’d ruins rise, The Fiend-hag on her perilous couch doth leap, Mutt’ring distemper’d triumph in her charmed sleep.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
not having or covered with a lid or lids
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: lidded
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adjective satellite
Meaning 3
always watchful- Alfred Tennyson
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sleepless
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
having no lid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Etymology tree English lid Proto-Indo-European *lewh1- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English lidless From lid + -less.
