Biddeford
a city in SW Maine.
Historical Examples
Memorial of Mrs. Lucy Gilpatrick Marsh delivered June 22, 1868. A. C. Thompson
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons L.A. Abbott
Jack the Hunchback James Otis
The Village Watch-Tower (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Lilac Girl Ralph Henry Barbour
England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle
The Lightning Conductor Discovers America C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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- Bidder
to command; order; direct: to bid them depart. to express (a greeting, farewell, benediction, or wish): to bid good night. Commerce. to offer (a certain sum) as the price one will pay or charge: They bid $25,000 and got the contract. Cards. to enter a bid of (a given quantity or suit): to bid two […]
- Biddies
a chicken. a newly hatched chick. a fussbudget, especially a fussy old woman. a female domestic servant, especially a cleaning woman. Historical Examples Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Louisa M. Alcott The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel Thornton W. Burgess Bowser The Hound Thornton W. Burgess The Upward Path Various The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk Thornton […]
- Biddy
a chicken. a newly hatched chick. a fussbudget, especially a fussy old woman. a female domestic servant, especially a cleaning woman. Historical Examples Mrs. Geoffrey Duchess It Happened in Egypt C. N. Williamson The Spirit of Sweetwater Hamlin Garland It Happened in Egypt C. N. Williamson The Young Berringtons W.H.G. Kingston It Happened in Egypt […]
- Bidding
command; summons; invitation: I went there at his bidding. bids collectively, or a period during which bids are made or received: The bidding began furiously. a bid. do someone’s bidding, to submit to someone’s orders; perform services for someone: After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to […]
- Bidding prayer
the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon. an intercessory prayer for persons living and dead, said in English churches up to about the middle of the 16th century. Historical Examples Lord Milner’s Work in South Africa W. Basil Worsfold Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages […]