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B — Besot to Billingsgate (Part 7 of 9)

    2. Invite, ask, request, call, solicit, pray.
    3. Wish, greet, say.
    4. Offer, propose, proffer, tender.

Bidding, n.

    1. Command, order, direction, injunction, precept, behest, requisition, mandate, appointment.
    2. Offer (of a price), bid, proposal.

Biddy, n.

    1. Housemaid, domestic, maid, servant-girl.
    2. Chicken, chick, chickabiddy.

Bide, v. a.

    1. Endure, suffer, tolerate, bear, put up with, submit to, abide.
    2. Abide, await, wait for.

Bide, v. n.

    1. Dwell, abide, stay, have one’s home.
    2. Remain, abide, wait, stay, lie still.

Bidental, a. Two-toothed, bidentate, bidentated, bidented, bidential.

Bid fair. Promise, seem likely, offer a good prospect, present a fair prospect, make a fair promise.

Bifid, a Cloven, cleft, forked, bifurcate (d), bifi date (d).

Bifurcate, Bifurcated, a. Forked, two-pronged, two-branched, bifurcous.

Bifurcation, n. Forking, branching, diverging, divergence.

Big, a.

    1. Great, large, huge, bulky, massive, massy.