*bide*

v. t. 1. To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time. “I will abide the coming of my lord.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ [ Obs. ], with a personal object. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bonds and afflictions abide me. Acts xx. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To endure; to sustain; to submit to. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Thou ] shalt abide her judgment on it. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. [ 1913 Webster ]

She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Confused with aby to pay for. See Aby. ] To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dearly I abide that boast so vain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who abides, or continues. [ Obs. ] “Speedy goers and strong abiders.” Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL., fr. L. ambo both + dexter right, dextra (sc. manus) the right hand. ] Using both hands with equal ease. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who uses both hands with equal facility. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility. Hence: Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Double-dealing. (Law) A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Practicing or siding with both parties. [ 1913 Webster ]

All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bided; p. pr. & vb. n. Biding. ] [ OE. biden, AS. bīdan; akin to OHG. bītan, Goth. beidan, Icel. bī&unr_;&unr_;; perh. orig., to wait with trust, and akin to bid. See Bid, v. t., and cf. Abide. ] 1. To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay. [ 1913 Webster ]

All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide
In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. [ 1913 Webster ]

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bidens, -entis, having two prongs; bis twice + dens a tooth. ] An instrument or weapon with two prongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having two teeth. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot. & Zool.) Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bidet, perh. fr. Celtic; cr. Gael. bideach very little, diminutive, bidein a diminutive animal, W. bidan a weakly or sorry wretch. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Carbon + -ide. ] (Chem.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ L. ] In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., softness, delicacy. See Morbid. ] 1. (Fine Arts) Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy. Ludden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To outlive. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]