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Hedit, Heidit, adj. and ppl. adj.² Also: hedyt, heiddit, heided, hiddit, headit. [ME. heedid (14th c.).]

1. Furnished with a head.(1) ?1438 Alex. i. 1671.
Dartis and staffis heidit with steill Thay bair c1475 Wall. x. 853.
Thai … with speris hedyt weill Feill woundis maid a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 168.
Ane flasche of felloun fanis Fedderit with ice and heidit with hailstanis 1513 Doug. xii. viii. 107.
Twa sopill castyng speris hedit with steill 1540 Maxwell Mem. 408.
Sewyn haill speyris, … iiij of tha heiddit 1571 Bann. Memor. 108.
Of speiris heidit and vnheidit, xx 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII. 82 b.
Four dossoun heidit scheifis(2) 1592 Edinb. Test. XXIV. 355 b.
xj pair of heidit gluiffis 1597 Ib. XXXI. 118 b.
The couering [of a bed] headit with ȝellow 1633 M. Works Acc. XXVIII. 11.
v^c heidit dore naill … , v^c heiddit plainscheor

2. Having a head (of a specified kind).Common in combinations, as Bare-hedit, Mell-hedit; Brade-heidit, grete-hedit s.v. Grete adj., n. and adv. 7, lang-heidit s.v. Inglis adj. and n.¹ A 1 (5), etc., q.v. under the first elements. See also Heich-heided. 1531 Bell. Boece II. 201.
Ane man … , heidit like ane sow, futtit like ane ganer 1541 Treas. Acc. VII. 498.
i^cvij pikkis, quhite esche hedit