An omen; a foreshadowing.

(obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.

A herald; a messenger.

A stop; a halting; delay.

simple past tense of bide

Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.

A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. / Something that one brags about. / (squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself. / (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. / (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

(military, nautical, historical) Any German submarine of the First or Second World War, or any Austro-Hungarian submarine of the First World War.