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Eident. World English Historical Dictionary

Eident. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Eident a. Sc. Also 6 ydant, 8 eydent. [Variant of earlier YTHAND, prob. an altered form of northern ME. iþen (a. ON. iðinn, íðinn ‘assiduous, diligent,’ Vigf.), perh. assimilated to pr. pples. in -and.] Diligent, industrious, busy; also attentive to. Cf. YTHAND.

1 1591.  R. Bruce, Serm., vi. O iij. The soules of the Sanctes departed ar mair ydant in this exercise [of praise] then when they wer aliue.

2 a. 1774.  Fergusson, Farmer’s Ingle, Poems (1845), 36. Wad they [gentler gabs] to labouring lend an eident hand.

3 1807–10.  Tannahill, Poems (1846), 12. The lad … Was eident ay, and deftly hel’ the plough.

4 1816.  Scott, Old Mort., iv. ‘Be eident and civil to them baith.’

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