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<p><b>1.</b> <def>That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc. ; a movable cover; <as>as, the <ex>lid</ex> of a chest or trunk</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The cover of the eye; an eyelid.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's <b>lid</b>. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The cover of the spore cases of mosses.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian <spn>Eucalypti</spn>.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.</def>

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<hw>Lid"ded</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Covered with a lid.</def>

<i>Keats.</i>

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<hw>Lidge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same <er>Ledge</er>.</def><mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

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<hw>Lid"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>lidless</b> watcher of the public weal. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lie</h1> <Xpage=849>

<hw>Lie</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Lye</er>.</def>

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<hw>Lie</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>lyge</ets>; akin to D. <ets>leugen</ets>, OHG. <ets>lugi</ets>, <ets>G</ets>. <ets>l\'81ge</ets>, <ets>lug</ets>, Icel. <ets>lygi</ets>, Dan. & Sw. <ets>l\'94gn</ets>, Goth. <ets>liugn</ets>. See <er>Lie</er> to utter a falsehood.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.</def>

<blockquote>It is willful deceit that makes a <b>lie</b>. A man may act a <b>lie</b>, as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction when a traveler inquires of him his road. <i>Paley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A fiction; a fable; an untruth.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Anything which misleads or disappoints.</def>

<blockquote>Wishing this <b>lie</b> of life was o'er. <i>Trench.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To give the lie to</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To charge with falsehood; <as>as, the man <ex>gave<ex> him <ex>the lie<ex></as>.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To reveal to be false; <as>as, a man's actions may <ex>give the lie to<ex> his words</as>.</cd> -- <col>White lie</col>, <cd>a euphemism for such lies as one finds it convenient to tell, and excuses himself for telling.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Untruth; falsehood; fiction; deception.</syn> <usage> -- <er>lie</er>, <er>Untruth</er>. A man may state what is <i>untrue</i> from ignorance or misconception; hence, to impute an <i>untruth</i> to one is not necessarily the same as charging him with a <i>lie</i>. Every <i>lie</i> is an <i>untruth</i>, but not every <i>untruth</i> is a <i>lie</i>. Cf. <er>Falsity</er>.</usage>

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<hw>Lie</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lied</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lying</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>lien</ets>, <ets>li<?/en</ets>, <ets>le<?/en</ets>, <ets>leo<?/en</ets>, AS. <ets>le\'a2gan</ets>; akin to D. <ets>liegen</ets>, OS. & OHG. <ets>liogan</ets>, G. <ets>l\'81gen</ets>, Icel. <ets>lj<?/ga</ets>, Sw. <ets>ljuga</ets>, Dan.<ets>lyve</ets>, Goth. <ets>liugan</ets>, Russ. <ets>lgate</ets>.]</ety> <def>To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.</def>

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