Definition of "eident" [eident]

• Busy, industrious, diligent. (adjective)

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• ""eident" and so industrious, her heart warmed to the mason's apprentice, and she sent for him to her house."
• "I'm looking about the country-side and I see but a horde of lameter privatemen and half-pay officers maimed in limb or mind sitting about the dram bottle, hoved up with their vain-glory, blustering and blowing, instead of being honest, eident lairds and farmers."
• "The crowd now broke into a boisterous 'hooray,' as keen for the wedding as a moment before they had been eident for the funeral."