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to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle. Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched. Shak.

To boast; to be proud. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. vi. 14 No one . . . should glory in his prosperity. Richardson.

God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.] Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10.

effect; virtually; the same as. They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves. Milton.

Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible. Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. Shak . The ridges of grim war. Milton.

Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

- Ground beetle (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of carnivorous beetles of the family Carabidæ, living mostly in burrows or under stones, etc. -- Ground chamber, a room on the ground floor. -- Ground cherry. (Bot.) (a) A genus (Physalis) of herbaceous plants having an inflated calyx for a seed pod: esp., the strawber…

One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidæ, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit.

To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor. For this night let's harbor here in York. Shak.

on of a political patron. [Political Cant, U. S.] The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding. The Century.

self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.

That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

Winter home or abiding place. J. Burroughs.

s now obsolete. No comfortable star did lend his light. Shak. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root Shak.

A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.

Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist. While our obedience holds. Milton. The rule holds in land as all other commodities. Locke.

The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. He entered in his house -- his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. Byron.

self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. -- To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] Thackeray. -- Bid hook, a small boat hook. -- Chain hook. See under Chain. -- Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests. -- Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops fo…

A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge. You shall not house with me. Shak.