chide (pa. t. “chid,” pa. pple. “chid, chidden”)
1.
intr. to scold, quarrel,
speak loudly, brawl
LLL. IV. iii. 132
“You chide at
him,”
Shr. I. ii. 96
“though she chide as
loud As thunder,”
Sonn. cxi. 1
“for my sake do you with
Fortune chide.”
2.
trans. to scold
(freq.); to drive away with scolding
MND. III. ii. 312
“he hath chid me
hence.”
3.
applied to sounds
which suggest angry vehemence, e.g. the lashing of
water
1H4 III. i. 45
“the sea That chides the
banks,”
Oth. II. i. 12
“The chidden
billow”
(Qq “chiding”).
4.
to proclaim with
noise
H5 II. iv. 125
“caves . . . Shall chide
your trespass and return your
mock.”
