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To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. D. Jerrold.

A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.

A native or an inhabitant of Brazil. Brazilian pebble. See Pebble, n., 2.

Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. Haliwell.

A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.

ith concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.

Gravel or pebbles. Halliwell.

Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil. Gardner.

A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. [Scot.]

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

ce for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles.

he collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

; to impose or be imposed as the condition of. Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, Have ebb and flow conditioning their march. Tennyson.

Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

like; - - called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.

ent wheel, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.

ct of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke.

rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.