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Webster 1913 Edition


Bid

Bid

(bĭd)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Bade
(băd)
,
Bid
,
(Obs.)
Bad
;
p. p.
Bidden
,
Bid
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bidding
.]
[OE.
bidden
, prop to ask, beg, AS.
biddan
; akin to OS.
biddian
, Icel.
biðja
, OHG.
bittan
, G.
bitten
, to pray, ask, request, and E.
bead
, also perh. to Gr.
τειθειν
to persuade, L.
fidere
to trust, E.
faith
, and
bide
. But this word was early confused with OE.
beden
,
beoden
, AS.
beódan
, to offer, command; akin to Icel.
bjōða
, Goth.
biudan
(in comp.), OHG.
biotan
to command, bid, G.
bieten
, D.
bieden
, to offer, also to Gr.
πυνθάνεσθαι
to learn by inquiry, Skr.
budh
to be awake, to heed, present OSlav.
budēti
to be awake, E.
bode
, v. The word now has the form of OE.
bidden
to ask, but the meaning of OE.
beden
to command, except in “to bid beads.” √30.]
1.
To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).
2.
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.
3.
To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.
[Mostly obs.]
“Our banns thrice bid !”
Gay.
4.
To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
That Power who
bids
the ocean ebb and flow.
Pope
Lord, if it be thou,
bid
me come unto thee.
Matt. xiv. 28
I was
bid
to pick up shells.
D. Jerrold.
5.
To invite; to call in; to request to come.
As many as ye shall find,
bid
to the marriage.
Matt. xxii. 9
To bid beads
,
to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer.
[Obs.]
To bid defiance to
,
to defy openly; to brave.
To bid fair
,
to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.
Syn. – To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin.

Bid

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Bid
.

Bid

,
Noun.
An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.

Bid

,
Verb.
I.
[See
Bid
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
To pray.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bid

BID

,
Verb.
T.
pret. bid, or bade; pp. bid, bidden. [L. peto, to drive at, to attack, to ask, to desire, to beseech, anciently beto; impetus. Applied to the voice, it denotes utterance, a driving of sounds, which is applied to asking, prayer, and command. Class Bd.]
1.
To ask; to request; to invite.
Go ye into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Math.22.
This sense is antiquated, but we have the same word from the Latin, in invite, [in and bid.]

Definition 2024


bíd

bíd

See also: bid, BID, bîd, bið, and -bid

Irish

Verb

bíd

  1. (literary, Munster) third-person plural present indicative habitual of

Usage notes

The analytic form bíonn siad is standard.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bíd bhíd mbíd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.