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Quotation dates: 1438-1633
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Hedit, Heidit, adj. and ppl. adj.2 Also: hedyt, heiddit, heided, hiddit, headit. [ME. heedid (14th c.).]
1. Furnished with a head.(1) ?1438 Alex. i. 1671.
Dartis and staffis heidit with steill Thay bair c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace x. 853.
Thai … with speris hedyt weill Feill woundis maid a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 168.
Ane flasche of felloun fanis Fedderit with ice and heidit with hailstanis 1513 Doug. xii. viii. 107.
Twa sopill castyng speris hedit with steill 1540 Maxwell Mem. 408.
Sewyn haill speyris, … iiij of tha heiddit 1571 Bann. Memor. 108.
Of speiris heidit and vnheidit, xx 1595 Edinburgh Testaments XXVIII. 82 b.
Four dossoun heidit scheifis(2) 1592 Edinburgh Testaments XXIV. 355 b.
xj pair of heidit gluiffis 1597 Ib. XXXI. 118 b.
The couering [of a bed] headit with ȝellow 1633 Master of Works Accounts XXVIII. 11.
vc heidit dore naill … , vc heiddit plainscheor
2. Having a head (of a specified kind).Common in combinations, as Bare-hedit, Mell-hedit; Brade-heidit, grete-hedit s.v. Grete adj., n. and adv. 7, lang-heidit s.v. Inglis adj. and n.1 A 1 (5), etc., q.v. under the first elements. See also Heich-heided. 1531 Bell. Boece II. 201.
Ane man … , heidit like ane sow, futtit like ane ganer 1541 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 498.
icvij pikkis, quhite esche hedit
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