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of Bid.

One who bids or offers a price. Burke.

al is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

Command; order; a proclamation or notifying. "Do thou thy master's bidding." Shak.

The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.

A name used in calling a hen or chicken. Shak.

To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay. All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.

An instrument or weapon with two prongs.

Having two teeth. Swift.

Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.

A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.

Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.

Residence; habitation. Rowe.

See Andromede.

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

See Bifid.

Same as Diiodide.

Same as Dioxide.

Doubly pinnatifid.

Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.