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Bid, v. Also: byd, byde, bide; p.t. bad, baud (bald), bawd, bade, baid; p.p. bidden, -in, -yn, bidin(e, byddyn, -yne. [ME. bid(de, byd(de, early ME. bidden, ONhb. bidda, OE. biddan. As in Eng., partly representing OE. béodan Bede v.]

1. tr. To request, to command or order (a person) to do something.Usually const. with inf., sometimes with that.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxxv. 96.
I sal redy be To gange quhare-sa thu bydis me c1420 Wynt. v. 5339.
Ga fra this stede, … I byd thé Ib. vi. 1127.
Byd him sek this certane plas 1456 Hay I. 143/32.
He biddis him turne hame agayne a1500 Rauf C. 165.
Do as I bid thé Ib. 626.
Bid him seik him his self c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlv. 23.
As quha wald bid ane deid man dance 1513 Doug. iii. ii. 66.
Byddis he ws turn agane? 15.. Clar. i. 1229.
Ȝe sall bide him take This heart 1596 Dalr. II. 17/1.
King Philip … biddis thame be of stout courage(b) 1375 Barb. i. 251.
Gyff man bad his thryll owcht do Ib. xi. 568.
As he bad thame, thai haf done a1400 Leg. S. x. 246.
He … bad thame … worschipe do Til him c1400 Troy-bk. i. 49.
He bad me to ȝow say c1420 Wynt. iii. 1051.
This kyng bad this Symon ta That stane Ib. v. 4937.
He … bade hym that he suld pas 1456 Hay I. 110/16.
Crist … bad sanct Petir … that he [etc.] 1490 Irland Mir. I. 31/18.
God … bad him pas to king Pharo c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 138.
Scho bad hir archearis … me arrest 1549 Lanark Sheriff Ct. 18 b.
Scho baud him gif viij s. to Johne Mathe 1549 Compl. 40/12.
The maister … bald the marynalis lay the cabil c1500-c1512 Dunb. Th. & Rose 122 (B).
Scho … bawd him be as just [etc.] 1567 G. Ball. ii.
He bad vs euer pray to thé(c) 1375 Barb. vi. 91.
Thai did as he thame biddin had 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 191.
Scho is indytit to haue bidine hir guidmane … that [etc.]

b. To invite. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Mat. xxii. 3.
He send his seruandis to call men that war biddin [Wycl. bode] to the weddingis

2. To request or command (something to be done). Also intr. to make a request, give an order.(a) a1400 Leg. S. i. 490.
Than is don as he can byde Ib. xviii. 350.
It thu bydis … I sal fulfil 1389 Liber Melros 449.
To yow … we bid and commandes [etc.] 1425 Reg. Great S. 11/1.
Til al … that it afferis, straitly we bid [etc.] 1456 Hay I. 190/28.
Tharfore biddis he … that na man [etc.] a1500 Henr. Orph. 613.
Ressoun … Bidis leif this warldis full delyte 1513 Doug. viii. viii. 93.
Thai byd display thar banaris 1558 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 138.
Thay bid do, and dois nocht 1567 G. Ball. 60.
My flesche biddis fle(b) a1400 Leg. S. i. 361.
Nero bad a man suld ga Ib. xxvi. 301.
Has he bad, sa haf thai done c1420 Wynt. v. 202.
He … as the angell bad has done Ib. 1396.
He bad thre messys be sayd c1475 Wall. iii. 293.
The lord bad ces a1500 Henr. Fab. 1082.
The Justice bad belyif To gif the dome 1513 Doug. v. xiv. 3.
Heys heich the cros, he bad Ib. xi. xii. 29.
Thai … bad on thame with a cry a1500 Peblis to Play 103.
Ane bad pay, ane vther said nay(c) 1375 Barb. xix. 450.
Thai did as he biddin had a1400 Leg. S. x. 260.
As the kinge had biddyn Ib. xxxiii. 834.
To fulfil The thing that bydding wes hym til c1400 Troy-bk. i. 173.
My message, … As me was biddyn, so I said 1533 Gau 55/12.
It is byddyne vs that ve suld [etc.] a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxx. 145.
As he hes biddin

b. To request or ask for (a thing). Also with of. a1500 Henr. Fab. 157.
Haif we riches, na better lyfe we bid 1490 Irland Mir. I. 137/11.
The … haly trinite desirit and bade the consent of this haly lady c1500-c1512 Dunb. vi. 34.
Of varldis gud I bad na mair Ib. xl. 14.
Bot mavasy, scho bad nane vder [wine] 1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 134.
I weyn thou byddis na better bot I brek thi brow Ib. xi. xv. 55.
I ask na trophe … Nowder byd I therof spulȝe nor renovn 1572 Sat. P. xxxii. 17.
Na vther lyfe we pure men bade of better

c. To wish; to say in greeting or leave-taking. c1540 Lynd. Syde Taillis 129.
Quhen gentill men biddis thame gude day 1567 Sat. P. iii. 62.
Quhen Dalila and Bothwell bad gudnycht 1668 Conv. Burghs III. 608.
We wish yow a … saffe returne and bids youe fairwell

3. To offer, esp. as a price for goods. a1400 Leg. S. xxxix. 49.
Of hir gud scho bad [L. obtulit] in hy 14.. Acts I. 39/2.
Gif … it hafe bene befor the sellyng of it byddin to the nerrest of the frendis 1436 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 4.
Gif ony takkis on hand to bye this vitalle of derrere pryce na is bidden for it in the tolbuith 1462 Ib. 20.
To by ony vittuallis or to bid ony price thairfoir c1475 Wall. ii. 38.
For a strak he bad him grottis thre 1519 Rec. Earld. Orkney 94.
Efter thay be thryise tymes biddin at kirk or court c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 479.
They bad him wyne, and he it drank 1547 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 129.
That the haill guidis be … sett to thame that biddis maist thairfore 1555 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 291.
Quhair his nychtbour hes … bidden ony money thairfor, that his nychtbour bid na mair nor is offerit 1647 Elgin Rec. I. 182.
Johne Douglas … offered for Kempsaiker 210 merks and … non baid nor offered more

b. To offer (battle). Cf. Bede v. Brus viii. 183 (E).
Thar thoucht he battaile for to bid [C. beid] c1420 Ratis R. App. p. 174.
Be nocht oft bound to byd batalȝhe c1475 Wall. x. 203.
Be that the Bruce ane awfull battaill baid

4. To offer, to desire or seek (to do something). Used esp. with fenȝie, layne, or le. 14.. Acts I. 39/2.
Gif … sum man of the next frendis cummys … and byddis that land to by [L. offerat se emere] c1420 Wynt. vii. 3242.
Off hym I byd to spek no mare c1450-2 Howlat 70.
I bid nocht to nyte 1456 Hay I. 39/5.
Of the quhilk … I bide nocht to speke mekle a1500 Rauf C. 313.
I bid not to lane a1500 Prestis of Peblis 475.
I bid nocht hald in hiddil Ib. 1119.
I bid nocht for to lane c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyting 137.
I bid nocht fenȝie 1513 Doug. v. iv. 65, 67.
Now byd I nocht craif it, … Nor I byd not to stryve Ib. xii. viii. 180.
Mair than I byd say 1535 Stewart 29323.
I bid nocht le 1560 Rolland Seven S. 99/23.
I bid not for to lie ȝow a1568 Scott xxiii. 38.
I bid not for to lane a1570-86 Maitl. F. lxxx. 37.
I bid nocht feyn Ib. lxxxii. 37.
I bid nocht tell

b. To reck, take heed, of. 1513 Doug. v. Prol. 59.
I byd nothir of ȝour turmentis nor ȝour glorie