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The Anglo-Saxon name for June, “because the beasts did then weyd in the meadow, that is to say, go and feed there.” (Verstegan.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.