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To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.

An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief. [Prov. Eng.]

A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame. [Alaska] The Century.

Obedient; docile. [Scot.]

of Bid.

One who bids or offers a price. Burke.

in, 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.

The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.

-- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

One who abides, or continues. [Obs.] "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney.