Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
bide .
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Examples
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Trikked N2 a poaze undiggnifyed, Iz plawwted wiff much tyme 2 byde
skillz. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Lyche yonge enlefed trees whyche yn a forreste byde.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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There whylome wont the Templer Knights to byde, 135
Prothalamion 1919
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There whylome wont the Templar Knights to byde, 135
Prothalamion 1909
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Whan þou hast done as I haue byde þe, þ {o} u schalt haue suych an ord {er} of figur {e} as is her {e},
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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Nevens Albert Cornelisz ende t'merck van Nicolaes Stilwil, byde als getuygen vande waerheyt des bovenstaenden onderteckenden Mercken: onderstont In Kennisse van my, Jacob Kip geadmiteerde Clercq.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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¶ Playe not Iacke maleperte, _tha_t ys to say, be ware of presumpc_i_on, be ware of pryde; 492 take not _th_e first place, my child, by _th_e waye; till [e] oder be sette, ryght manerly a-byde, presumtvous be ofte sette a-syde
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Oxenford, another at York, and the fourthe at Cambregge; and the lady put in prison, and after sent to Chestre, there to byde whill she lyvyth.
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Lyst his slacke paas, sholde cause hym byde behynde
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
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1.6.12: For my lordes gilt thus faultlesse byde I paynes.
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