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Webster 1913 Edition

(nīd)

Verb.

[AS.

gnīdan

To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.

[Obs.]

☞ This word is found in Tyrwhitt’s Chaucer, but improperly. The woed, though common in Old English, does not occur in Chaucer.

T. R. Lounsbury.