[ad. L. bident-em (nom. bidens) adj. ‘having two teeth, two-pronged, forked,’ sb. ‘a two-pronged fork, a sheep or other animal for sacrifice whose two rows of teeth are complete,’ f. bi- two + dentem tooth.]
1. An instrument or weapon with two prongs.
1675. Cotton, Poet. Wks. (1765), 232. The blust’ring Aeo for his Bident.
1850. Layard, Nineveh, v. 94. A half-moon, a bident, and a horned cap.
2. A two-year-old sheep. rare.
1881. Thurn, in Academy, No. 491. 252. The timid bident has usurped the place of the bellower.
