Obs. exc. dial. Also bidde. [A variant of BUD, behod, behoved. Still in mod.Sc. as a present tense.)] = Must (by moral obligation, logical or natural necessity).
a. 1300. Havelok, 1733. of the mete for to telle, Ne of the metes bidde I nout dwelle; That is the storie for to lenge.
[Mod. Sc. (Roxb.) ‘The man bid be a fuil to gang on that way.’ ‘It’s a bid-be,’ i. e. a must-be, a natural necessity.]
