Obs. Forms: 3–4 bod, 4–6 bode; north. 4–5 bad, 4–6 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.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 2485. An auter [abram] raised wit-outen bad. Ibid., 2535. Wit-outen baide.

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c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 149. Boute bod he braydes to þe quene.

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, VI. 403. [He] gert arme his men … forouten baid.

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c. 1440.  Bone Flor., 1018. Than was there no lenger bode.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 213. He dressit him … But ony baid.

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1593.  Peele, Chron. Edw. I. (1874), 384. Make thou thy bode In resolution to revenge these wrongs.

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