What is "lid"

Usage examples of "lid".

He could feel the points abrading his skin and saw stars for a moment behind his closed lids.

The disastrous period of the Hyksos domination in Egypt has left but one trace at Knossos, but that is of peculiar interest, for it is the lid of an alabastron bearing the name of the Hyksos King Khyan.

They had only a little round opening on the top, closed with an aluminium lid, which fitted exactly like the lid of a milk-can.

Glumly he dug the large bottle out of his pocket, pried off the lid, and poured a fistful of antacid tablets into his palm.

Then those aquamarine pools would go dark, the lids would squeeze closed.

The face was of pure gold, the eyes were made of aragonite and obsidian, the brows and lids of lapis-lazuli glass.

This air is enhanced by the presence of five aspidistras, placed in a row on the top of the bunting, which has been stretched across the top, over the opening and the turned-back lid, tightly fixed to the edges with drawing pins, and allowed to fall in artistic festoons down the sides and in a sort of valance-like effect across the front.

Miss Azimuth, waiting for the change, chose that moment to pull back the lid of her left eye.

Rather less than fifteen minutes later both damsels crept down the stairs, one clutching a portmanteau and a bandbox from under whose lid a scrap of muslin flounce protruded, the other clasping in both arms a bulky receptacle made of plaited straw.

They were nearing his town house in Clarence Square in the West End of London, when the bandbox lid began to move.

Gloria Garton lowered her bepurpled lids and cast a queenly stare of suspicion on the young detective.

The biologist pressed the switch, the lid closed and immediately five or six of the black monsters fastened on to the zirconium covered tank.

As the Princess lifted the lid of her white piano in the ring while Mignon flounced her lacy skirts, Buffo, babbling obscenities, was loaded into a waiting cab, leaving the circus for the last time, as he had never done before, in the way that gentlemen did, by the front entrance.

The lid of the kettle was of heavy cast iron, and fitted tightly, but McCoy now plastered it about with clay before he filled his sawn calabash with water and stood a pewter half-pint on a rock, where it would catch the drip from the coil.

He despised the musicians, playing citoles, lyres, pipes that curled like the necks of swans, and what looked like the lid of a trash can.