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▪ I. gid1|gɪd|
[short form of giddy n.]
Giddiness; spec. a brain-disease of sheep, caused by the hydatid Cœnurus cerebralis. Also giddy.
1601Holland Pliny II. 218 This healeth the gid or wood⁓euill in sheep. Ibid. 230 The party who hath the cutting of them, had need first to annoint his head all ouer and his nosthrils with oile..for feare of the gid. 1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. IV. 107 The other Day you lost a Sheep by the Gid, or Giddiness. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. II. 224 Rot..with the gid, (a sudden giddiness)..are the chief distempers. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 187 The so-called ‘gid’, ‘sturdy’, or ‘turnsick’, is caused by the development of the Cœnurus cerebralis.
†b. ? transf. ? A whim, ‘maggot’.
1556J. Heywood Sp. & Flie lxxvii. 5 As gidds cum and go, so flies cum and are gone.
▪ II. gid2 ? Obs.
A provincial name for the Jack Snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula).
1674Ray Words, Water Fowl 89 The Gid or Jack-snipe, Gallinago minima. 1678― Willughby's Ornith. 291 The Gid or Jack-Snipe or Judcock.
▪ III. gid
obs. form of guide.
▪ IV. gid(d
obs. form of ged1. |