Lid

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc. ; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.

2. The cover of the eye; an eyelid. Shak. Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid. Byron.

3. The cover of the spore cases of mosses.

4. A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.

5. The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.