Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disease of herbivores, especially sheep, caused by the presence of larvae of the tapeworm Taenia multiceps in the brain and resulting in a staggering gait.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The jack-snipe.
- noun Staggers in sheep, a disease caused by a cystic worm in the brain, formerly called
Cœnurus cerebralis , now known to be the larva of the dog's tapeworm, Tœnia cœnurus. Also calledgiddiness and sturdy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C�nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See
c�nurus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
fiddle . - noun A
disease ofsheep caused bytapeworm .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is now pretty conclusively established that they are no more Japanese than they are of any other country in particular, but that the originators of the breed were common fancy mice which were suffering from a disease of the brain analogous to the 'gid' in sheep.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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You want a uid and gid which is not in the NIS maps and you want the account to be local to your gate machine.
Planet Sun 2008
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And for them to do that, well I am speechless with gid right now.
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That dream sounds very interesting … those are the most fun, not the crazy stupid ones. gid
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It does the mode, uid and gid, too; note that the files come out owned as alaric, even though I ran the extract as root.
Snell-Pym » Ugarit 2009
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August 22, 2009 at 11:59 am because his gid-up and go has got up and gone?
TRANSPORT ACQUIRED - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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IN; by = ind$inc_s; uniValue = 20; iid = SP. POP.TOTL; by = ind$inc_c; uniValue = 255; gid = 1004; iid = SP. POP.DPND; by = grp$map_x; scale = log; dataMin = 466; dataMax = 64299$map_y; scale = lin; dataMin = 24; dataMax = 82$map_s; sma = 50; smi = 1. 2$inds = ZAF_tG3,,,,; BWA_tG3,,,,
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This should work with the relevant gid for the Abbott speech.
John Leech Watch: Frightened of Lucy, Because He's Crap 2008
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Dont choo jus haet it when yoo gid awl drest up fur a partee an yoo gets ther to find sumwun is wayrin teh saym owtfit!
O, Dem? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Is “Gremlin” won ob dose speeshees dat duzzint gid owt much adn dare4 getses to travel on de contribushuns?
Hmmm…the zebra looks good, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
sionnach commented on the word gid
brain disease suffered by sheep
October 16, 2007
yarb commented on the word gid
And even it seemed that I too was not a reasonable creature, but only an animal tormented with some strange disorder in its brain which sent it to wander alone, like a sheep stricken with gid.
- H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau
July 8, 2009