Obs. Forms: 34 bod, 46 bode; north. 45 bad, 46 bade, (4 baide, 6 beed). [Not found in OE., and either formed at a later time on BIDE, on the analogy of abide, abode, or an aphetic form of ABODE itself. In later use chiefly Sc., in form bade, baid.] Biding, tarrying, waiting, delay. But bode: without delay.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 2485. An auter [abram] raised wit-outen bad. Ibid., 2535. Wit-outen baide.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 149. Boute bod he braydes to þe quene.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VI. 403. [He] gert arme his men forouten baid.
c. 1440. Bone Flor., 1018. Than was there no lenger bode.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 213. He dressit him But ony baid.
1593. Peele, Chron. Edw. I. (1874), 384. Make thou thy bode In resolution to revenge these wrongs.