adjective, verb (used with or without object), oped, op·ing. Literary.
- open.
verb, adjective
- an archaic or poetic word for open
adj.short for open (adj.), early 13c. “not closed; not hidden;” originally as awake is from awaken, etc. As a verb from mid-15c. Middle English had ope-head “bare-headed” (c.1300).