bide

present singular third person bides · participle present biding · past bode · past bided · participle past bided · participle past bidden

1. dialectaltransitiveTo bear; to endure; to tolerate.

   And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt

   c. 1570, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes

   Synonyms: put up with

2. archaictransitiveTo face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.

   Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii

3. archaicdialectalintransitiveTo dwell or reside in a location; to abide.

   All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.

   1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

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   But Sir Thomas Kennedy bode little about his house in Maybole, chiefly because his lads and lasses loved most to remain at Culzean, where the cliffs are and the sea spreads wide, clattering pleasantly on the rocks, and with the birds blithely swirling and diving about it all the year round.

   1896, S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett, “The Adventure of the Garden”, in The Grey Man, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, page 101

   John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.

   1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 254

   Synonyms: live

4. archaicdialectalintransitiveTo wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.

   And thither wending there that night they bode.

   1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 168

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   "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."

   1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 252

   It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.

   1913, Fred E. Weatherly, Danny Boy

   Synonyms: stand by

5. archaictransitiveTo wait for; to await.

   Synonyms: await

1. A surname.