Opetide

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Open time;

— applied to different things.

II. Opetide ·noun The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening.

III. Opetide ·noun The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.

IV. Opetide ·noun The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday wherein marriages were formerly solemnized publicly in churches. [Eng.]