Hade Definition

hād

haded, hading

noun

The angle between the plane of a fault or vein and the vertical plane.

Webster's New World

(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) Order; estate; rank; degree; holy or religious orders.

Wiktionary

(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) State; condition; quality; kind.

Wiktionary

verb

To incline from the vertical plane, as a fault, vein, or lode.

Webster's New World

(obsolete) To ordain; consecrate; admit to a religious order.

Wiktionary

(geology) To slope from the vertical.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Hade

Singular:

hade

Plural:

From Middle English had, hed, hod, from Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir”), from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāi- (“light, bright, shining”). Cognate with Old Saxon hēd (“consition, rank”), Old High German heit (“person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank”), Old Norse heiðr ("honour, dignity") (whence Danish hæder (“honour”), Swedish heder (“honour”)), Gothic [script?] (haidus, “way, manner”). Same as -hood.

From Wiktionary
From Middle English hadien, hodien, from Old English hādian (“to ordain, consecrate”), from Old English hād (“rank, order, office, holy office”). See above.

From Wiktionary
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.

From Wiktionary
Origin unknown

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition