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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.

-- 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.

er; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.

Practicing or siding with both parties. All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings. L'Estrange.

In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.

The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.

A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.

In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib.

Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.

To outlive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A compound containing a relatively large amount of carbon. [R.]

ually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as…

3d sing. pres. of Abide. [Obs.] Chaucer.