plural of hade

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hade

(Greek mythology) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.

(now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.

(geology, mining) To slope or incline from the vertical.

(geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.

(Britain, dialects, obsolete) A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.

simple past tense and past participle of hade

present participle of hade

(simile, colloquial) extremely hot; hot as hell; hot as blazes