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A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.

A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.

ture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. He held the baton of command. Prescott.

lliam the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.

To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic] When gold and silver becks me to come on. Shak.

e point by argument. -- To go a-begging, a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.

That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott.

To command; to order. He behight those gates to be unbarred. Spenser.

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

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.

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

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. [Eng.]

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

More. As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Fuller.

e or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

e and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. Aria di bravura ( Etym: [It.], a florid air demanding brilliant execution.

A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tête-de-pont.