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One who bids or offers a price. Burke.

A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material 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.]

One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles. [U.S.]

One who forbids. Milton.

One who outbids. Johnson.

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; clubs, 6; diamonds, 7; hearts, 8; royal spades (lilies), 9; and when the deal is played with no trump, 10.

n whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

A all for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell their leases by cant." Swift.

A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].

l; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off. -- To knock in the head, or on the head, to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash. [Colloq…

The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder. [R.]

One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. Bouvier.

n spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.

Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction. Sir W. Temple. Bill of sale. See under Bill. -- Of sale, On sale, For sale, to be bought or sold; offered to purchasers; in the market. -- To set to sale, to offer for sale; to put up for purchase; to make merchandise of. [Obs.] Milton.…

To bid less than, as when a contract or service is offered to the lowest bidder; to offer to contract, sell, or do for a less price than.

A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction. [Obsoles.] Vendue master, one who is authorized to sell any property by vendue; an auctioneer. [Obsoles.]