bide

name

1. A surname.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity. Cognates Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese and Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”).

1. To bear; to endure; to tolerate.

   “And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt”

2. To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.

   “Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.”

3. To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.

   “All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.”

   “But Sir Thomas Kennedy bode little about his house in Maybole, chiefly because his lads and lasses loved most to remain at Culzean, where the cliffs are and the sea spreads wide, clattering pleasantly on the rocks, and with the birds blithely swirling and diving about it all the year round.”

4. To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.

   “And thither wending there that night they bode.”

   “"Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."”

5. To wait for; to await.