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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1475-1605
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Biding, vbl. n. Also: byding, -inng, -yng, -yne, byiding; byddinge, -yng. [ME. biding, bydyng (14th c.), f. Bide v.]
1. Abiding, waiting; stay or residence. But mare biding, without more delay. Also const. of (= for), fra, and with out.(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxx. 523.
Be-twene the ton & the abbay He restit & tuk bydyng Ful oft c1420 Wynt. vi. 2026.
Gyve the kyng Thiddyr come and mad bydyng c1420 Ib. viii. 1935.
In Scotland he na byddyng made c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxi. 22.
Thy leiges leill thy byding byis full deir 1511 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 337.
For iij dais biding, as his bill bure, xix s. ij d. 1545 Stirling Ant. IV. 215.
They sal … pay 10 s. … for the said prentis and becums suretie for his biding and lawtie a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS liv. 29.
Allace this byding is deir bocht a1605 Montg. Son. xxxi. 10.
Before thy blissit byding be above 1594 Misc. Maitl. C. I. 68.
For byding fra his parroche kirk and fra the communioune(2) a1400 Legends of the Saints xv. 166.
But mare byddinge To thame … prechit Barnaba c1420 Wynt. iii. 63.
But mare byddyng than tuk thai Tyll Jordane on the nerest way(3) a1500 Bernardus 268.
Sumpteus biggyne … is bot bydyne of sellyn c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 1086.
Thus he was lost in byding off his king(4) 1526 Reg. Privy S. I. 542/1.
Ane respitt … for … thair tresonable remaning and byding fra the oist and army of Sulway 1543 Misc. Spald. C. II. 196.
Throw his tresonable byding and remaning fra our oist and army 1574 Bk. Univ. Kirk I. 315.
His longe delay and bydinng out, and not ioyning to the couenanters
