waid

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English

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Etymology

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For weighed.

Adjective

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waid (comparative more waid, superlative most waid)

  1. (obsolete) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
    • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: [] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: [] Robert Triphook, [], and William Sancho, [], 1810, →OCLC:
      This being waid, as may delight,
      be not afraid, the countrey wight

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