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Bid   /bɪd/   Listen
noun
Bid  n.  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.


verb
Bid  v. t.  (past bade; past part. bidden, bid; pres. part. bidding)  
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." "He bids defiance to the gaping crowd."
3.
To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. (Mostly obs.) "Our banns thrice bid!"
4.
To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. "That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow." "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee." "I was bid to pick up shells."
5.
To invite; to call in; to request to come. "As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage."
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.
Synonyms: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin.


Bid  v. i.  (past bade; past part. bidden, bid; pres. part. bidding)  
1.
To pray. (Obs.)
2.
To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.


Bid  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Bid.





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"Bid" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Bid good by, for a time, to Necile and her sisters; for you shall accompany me on my journey through ...
— The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus • L. Frank Baum
... good-humoured; but she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, and, at thirteen, she did not bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various
... it require much art to learn all this from that pathetic plaint about the foot-paths. For the game of the Briton in a foreign land is ever the same. It changes not from generation unto generation. Bid him to the feast and set before him all your wealth of cellar and garner. Spread before him the meat, heap up for him the fruits of the season. Weigh down the board with every vegetable that the gardener's art can bring to perfection in or out of its time—white-potatoes, sweet-potatoes, ...
— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner
... right to hide our troubles, but it is not right that you should hide yours from me. You are my firstborn child and my only daughter. There are girls who are very good, but between their mothers and them there is a wall. They do what they are bid; they are kind, but that is all. They live apart from those that bore them. I would not give a straw for such duty and love. I gathered one of our Christmas roses this morning. We have taken great care to keep them from being splashed and ...
— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford
... to guess, I should perhaps say he does like it. Here we are now. Inside this low gate you are within the demesne, and I may bid you welcome to Kilgobbin. We shall build a lodge here one of these days. There's a good stretch, however, yet to the castle. We call it two miles, and it's not far ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever


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