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Tid(e, Tyd(e, v.¹ [ME and e.m.E. (once) tide(n (c1200), tyde(n (13th c), ? tide (1592), OE (ᵹe)tídan. Cf. Betide v.]

1. intr. To happen, befall, freq. impersonal. b. Const. indirect object.Common in Leg. S. 1375 Barb. iv 543.
Giff that it happyn as weill may tid That we wyn wictour a1400 Leg. S. v 613.
And tyd a tyme … at he … passit the gret se a1400 Leg. S. xvi 651.
He ȝarnit thane to wit quhat tyd Of thame that he lefit thar hyd a1400 Leg. S. xxv 318.
Thare-for gret sorow til hym tyd a1400 Leg. S. xxvii 53.
Thane tyd the king a tyme to ryd In the cunctre a1400 Leg. S. xxvii 861.
Syne tyd one a tym to gang Apone the feild … and saw a bare a1400 Leg. S. xxvii 169.
It tyd his noryse for to be Sitand & had hym on hyr kne a1400 Leg. S. xxix 85.
Tyd a day he went to hont The auld bestis, as he wes wont a1400 Leg. S. xxxi 479.
This case tyd nyne hundreth ȝere Eftyr Crist 1475 Gol. & Gaw. 1083.
For ony trety may tyde … I wil noght turn myn entent 1513 Doug. ii ix 2.
Peraventur of Priamus wald ȝe speir Quhou tyd the chance 1513 Doug. xi xiv 78.
Seand the exempill and prosper chans that tyd [Ruddim. tide] Of thar stowt duke 1680 Haigs of Bemersyde 309.
Com what will com, tyde what may tyde, A Haig shall be laird of Bemersydeb. 1375 Barb. xix 558.
I wat nocht quhat may tyd ws a1400 Leg. S. ii 1147.
He wald call Paule in helpyng & tyd hyme to do swa … Quhen [etc.] a1400 Leg. S. xvi 686.
A, Mary Magdelane, how happy In al at [= that] me is tyd ware I c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 246.
Now tydis me for to talk, my taill it is nixt

2. tr. To cause (something) to happen, grant (a request), inflict (grief) (til a person or const. indirect object). a1400 Leg. S. xx 359.
He has tyd thé thi prayere a1400 Leg. S. xxvii 967.
All thare ȝarnyng ilke dele He tyd thame a1400 Leg. S. xxviii 634.
He til hyr tyd hyre bowne a1400 Leg. S. xxix 406.
For-thi wa tyd is ȝou … That ȝoure gud modir now mon mys 1380 Leg. S. xxxiii 829.
God his askine had hyme tyde a1400 Leg. S. l 1163.
At [= that] thu has askit here I haf thé tyd all haile