Search for crossword answers and clues
Wait, quaintly
Answer for the clue "Wait, quaintly ", 4 letters:
bide
Alternative clues for the word bide
Word definitions for bide in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English bidan "to stay, continue, live, remain," also "to trust, rely," from Proto-Germanic *bidan "to await" (cognates: Old Norse biða , Old Saxon bidan , Old Frisian bidia , Middle Dutch biden , Old High German bitan , Gothic beidan "to wait"), which ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bide \Bide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bided ; p. pr. & vb. n. Biding .] [OE. biden, AS. b[=i]dan; akin to OHG. b[=i]tan, Goth. beidan, Icel. b[=i]??; perh. orig., to wait with trust, and akin to bid. See Bid , v. t., and cf. Abide .] To dwell; to inhabit; to ...
Usage examples of bide.
Is there ony bit ye can bide at, not abune twenty miles frae Woodilee?
Nay, thou shalt bide here in safety whilst I go forward--to visit Atene as I promised.
That he was now the President of the College of Tribunes of the Plebs did not bode well for tribunician antics of demagogue kind.
The porno theaters and by-the-hour motels yield to botdnicas and bode gas outlets for Discos Latinos, an infinite array of food stands--taco joints, Peruvian seafood parlors, fast-food franchises-and first-rate Latino restaurants, beauty shops with windows guarded by Styrofoam skulls wearing blond Dynel wigs, Cuban bakeries, storefront medical and legal clinics, bars and social clubs.
City in these deceptively peaceful times did not bode well for the continued safety of Rhomatum streets or its treaty with Mauritum.
Sir Huhmfree Gawlin, bide the night in the citadel and ride with his reply on the morrow.
Lairds should bide in their ain houses if the land is to have any gude of them.
He was using spinning gear, working a variety of plugs and spoons and jigs and plastic worms in all of the spots where a lunker largemouth was likely to be biding his time.
Yet Philip was biding his time in prison, having the life siphoned out of him.
Ambiorix and the Eburones were there beyond the sleety rain, biding their time with the complacence of men who knew the terrain a great deal better than the Romans did.
But Ambiorix and the Eburones were there beyond the sleety rain, biding their time with the complacence of men who knew the terrain a great deal better than the Romans did.
As tha nears a breeter land: Tho thi rooad is hard to climb, Be content, an bide thi time.
God that works in thae hills and the Devil--ay, the manifold devils--that He suffers to bide here?
There we shall bide, and it is like enough that for a month or more you may find us there, ere we are ready for our viage back to France.
I dochtna bide To hear yer bonnie name, Whaur muckle mous war opened wide Wi' lawless mirth and shame.