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A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
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The top or cover of a container.
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A cap or hat.
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One ounce of cannabis.
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A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
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A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
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In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
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A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
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A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
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To put a lid on (something).
Examples of lid in a Sentence
She replaced the lid and glanced up again.
She replaced the lid and looked at him.
She lifted a lid and checked the broccoli.
The thurible, the proper ecclesiastical term for the vessel in the Western Church, is usually spherical in form, though often square or polygonal, containing a small receptacle for the charcoal and covered by a perforated lid; it is carried and swung by three chains, a fourth being attached to the lid, thus allowing it to be raised at intervals for the volume of smoke to be increased.
She lifted the lid.
Then he quickly pushed it against the lid and blew out the match.
Above the rim of the pitcher is a broad flattened lid, which is also a laminar development.
The mixture of ore and charcoal is put into the crucible around the pipe, the crucible closed by a luted-on lid, and placed in a furnace constructed so as to permit of the lower end of the pipe projecting into the ash-pit.
The inner corner is partly or entirely covered by a fold of the upper lid continuing more or less into the lower lid.
Carmen carried the basket of eggs to the counter beside the sink and watched as Alex took the lid off the roasting pan.
She lifted the lid and peeked at the hamburger meat.
Another place for a tin can lid.
As she replaced the lid, the fire alarm went off.
She dropped the lid smartly and glanced up with a grin.
She removed the lid from a plastic trash can and scooped out some food for him.
She raced over to the stove and lifted the lid.
She giggled and turned to the dresser, closing the jewelry box lid.
Toby had said before they left the Sanctuary. Rhyn unscrewed the lid of the full bottle, recognizing the scent of Katie's blood at once. It made his body roar to life, and he realized just how hungry he was. He'd foregone food after her death, hoping to starve himself.
This system eliminates the need for cable stripping or fastening and no tools are needed to fasten the lid.
On the lid there is a man playing a flageolet outside a cottage.
Ocular adnexal injuries like lid lacerations occur rarely during episiotomy or with the surgical knife during delivery with cesarean section has been noted 5.
She took the tin from his hand and opened its hinged lid.
A large chest invited, and she knelt, touching the lid.
The cavity of the pitcher is in some species lined throughout with a smooth glistening surface over which glands are uniformly distributed; these glands secrete a liquid which is found in the pitcher even in the young state while it is still hermetically closed by the lid.
All birds have, like most reptiles, a well-developed third lid or "nictitating membrane," which moves from the inner canthus obliquely upwards and backwards over the cornea.
In Clausilia a peculiar modification of this lid exists permanently in the adult, attached by an elastic stalk to the mouth of the shell, and known as the " clausilium."
In the trap-door species of Lycosidae, like, for instance, Lycosa opifex of the Russian steppes, the hinge is weak and the lid of the burrow is kept normally shut by being very much thicker and heavier at its free margin opposite the hinge so that it readily falls by its own weight.
The lid is sometimes thin and wafer-like as in the burrow of the species of Nemesia, sometimes thick and cord-like as in that of the species of Cteniza or Pachylomerus.
If an attempt be made by any enemy to lift the lid, the spider seizes its inner side with his fangs and striking his claws into the walls of the burrow offers the greatest possible resistance to the efforts of the intruder.
This apparatus has an oil-cup consisting of a cylindrical brass or gunmetal vessel, the cover of which is provided with three rectangular holes which may be closed and opened by means of a perforated slide moving in grooves; the movement of the slide causes a small oscillating colzaor rape-oil lamp to be tilted so that the flame (of specified size) is brought just below the surface of the lid.
Peppe calculates its weight, lid included, at 1537 Ib.
This was almost certainly the shock of an earthquake, and the same shock probably caused the split in the stone lid of the coffer itself.
An inscription ran round one of the steatite vases just below the lid.
The furnace used by Henri Moissan in his experiments on reactions at high temperatures, on the fusion and volatilization of refractory materials, and on the formation of carbides, suicides and borides of various metals, consisted, in its simplest form, of two superposed blocks of lime or of limestone with a central cavity cut in the lower block, and with a corresponding but much shallower inverted cavity in the upper block, which thus formed the lid of the furnace.
The most favourable retort is a shallow iron pan heated in a sand bath, and provided with a screwed-down lid bearing the delivery tube.
This fold often covers also the whole free rim of the upper lid, so that the insertion of the eyelashes is hidden and the opening between the lids is so narrowed as to disappear altogether at the moment of laughter.
For example, on the surface of a shibuichi box-lid we see the backs of a flock of geese chiselled in silver, and when the lid is opened, their breasts and the under-sides of their pinions appear.
On the plate of a gold-leaf electroscope place a metal canister having a loose lid.
Let a metal ball be suspended by a silk thread, and the canister lid so fixed to the thread that when the lid is in place the ball hangs in the centre of the canister.
If the ball is lowered until the lid is in place, the leaves take a steady deflection.
Here A is the iron cover surrounding the furnaces, B is the revolving lid of a furnace, save time and to reduce the loss of the precious metals.
Hope alone remained at the bottom, the lid having been shut down before she escaped.
The urns themselves are of alabaster, with the figure of the deceased on the lid, and reliefs from Greek myths on the front.
The carefully dried crystallized salt is pressed into the basin, and, after the lid has been fitted on, is exposed to a long-lasting moderate heat.
Ablepharus, the lower eyelid is transformed into a transparent cover which is fused with the rim of the reduced upper lid.
Ultimately the bishop of Quebec, unable to get a mandamus from the English privy council to dig him up, solemnly deconsecrated the ground down to the estimated depth of the lid of the wife's coffin.
The central space of the furnace was filled with a mixture of corundum, coarsely-powdered charcoal and copper; and an iron lid lined with firebrick was luted in its place to exclude air.
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The short streak of light thus obtained moves with Mirror, .l 4,Stindd Boom Balance Weight, j/?/?j?jj/ Masonry Column Lamp Br.mide Paper_ On- Need,Le o 0 the movement of the boom over a second slit perpendicular to the first and made in the lid of a box containing clockwork driving a band of bromide paper.
Monumental hieroglyphic lid not cease till the 3rd century A.D.