B I D 
BI'CHOS, f. [, bieho , Port.] A worm which gets under 
the toes of people in the Indies. 
BICI'PITAL, or Bicipitous, adj. [biceps, bicipitis, 
Lat.] Having two heads.—While men believe bicipitous 
conformation in any Ipecies, they admit a germination of 
principal parts. Brown. 
BICK'AGER, a town of Norway : feventy miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Drontheim. 
BICK ANEE'R, a town of Hindoftan, the capital of a 
circar or diftridt in the country of Aginiere ; the country 
is fandy, defert, and in great want of water, and is go¬ 
verned by a raja: forty-two miles weft of Nagore, and 
eighty weft-north-weft of Agimere. Lat. 27. 12. N. 
Ion. 74. E. Ferro. 
To BIC'KER, v. n. [bicre, Welfh, aconteft.] To Ikir- 
mifh ; to fight without a fet battle ; to fight oft and on.— 
They fell to fucli a bickering, that he got a halting, and 
loft his pifture. Sidney. —To quiver; to play backward 
and forw’ard. Milton. 
An icy gale, oft drifting o’er tire pool, 
Breathes a blue film, and, in its mid career, 
Arrefts the bickering dream. Thomfon. 
BIC'KERER,/. A Ikirmilher. 
BICK'ERN, J. [apparently corrupted from beakiron .] 
An iron ending in a point.—A blacklmith’s anvil is fome- 
times made with a pike, or bickern, or beakiron, at one 
end. Moxon. 
BICOC'CA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Milan, 
near which the French were defeated by Imperialifts in 
the year 1552 : two miles north-eaft of Milan. 
BI'CLINUM, f in “Roman antiquity, a chamber with 
two beds in it ; or when two beds only were round a table. 
BICOR'NES, f. [from bis, twice, and cornu, an horn.] 
An order of plants in til t fragmenta methodi naluralis of Lin- 
nteus, to termed from the antherae having in appearance 
two horns. 
BICOR'PORAL, adj. [from bicorpor, Lat.] Having 
two bodies. 
BICQJJE'LEY, a town of France, in the department 
of the Meurte, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Toul : one league and a quarter fouth of Toul, and 
three and three-quarters weft-fouth-vveft of Nancy. 
BICUS'PIS, f. [from bis, twice, and cufpis, a fpear.] 
The molares or grinding-teeth are called bicu/pides from 
their having double points or fangs. 
BICUCULLA'TA, f. in botany. SeeFuMARiA. 
To BID, v. a. pret. I bid. bad, bade, 1 have bid, or bid¬ 
den-, [biddan, Sax.] Todefire; to a(k; to call; to invite. 
—Go ye into the highways, and, as many as you fhall find, 
bid to the marriage. Matt. xxii. 9.—To command ; to or¬ 
der : before things or perfons.—Acquire a government 
oVer your ideas, that they may come when they are called, 
and depart when they are bidden. Watts. 
Saint Withold footed thrice the wold, 
He met the nightmare, and her ninefold, 
Bid her alight, and her troth plight. Sliakejpeare. 
To offer ; to propofe ; as,-to bid a price.—To give intereft 
a fhare in friendfhip, is to fell it by inch of candle ; he 
that bids mod fhall have it : and when it is mercenary, 
there is no depending on it. Collier. —To proclaim; to 
offer ; or to make known by fome public voice : 
Our banns thrice bid! and for our wedding day 
My kerchief bought! then prefs’d, then forc’d away. Gay. 
To pronounce ; to declare.—Divers, as we palled by 
them,’put their arms a little abroad; which is their guef- 
ture when they bid any welcome. Bacon. —To denounce : 
The captive cannibal, oppreft with chains, 
Yet braves his foes, reviles, provokes, difdains ; 
Of nature fierce, untameable, and proud, 
He bids defiance to the gaping crowd, 
And, (pent at laft and fpeechlefs as he lies, 
With fiery glances mocks their rage, and dies. Granville. 
To pray.—When they defired him to tarry longer with 
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them, he confented not, but bade them farewell. APIs, 
xviii. 21.—To bid beads, is to diftinguifh each bead by a 
prayer : 
By fome haycock, or fome fhady thorn, 
He bids his beads both evenfong and morn. Dryden. 
BIDA'CHE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrict of Uftaritz: five leagues eaft of Bayonne, and three 
north of St. Palais. 
BID'ALE, or Bidall ,f. [prccaria pot aria, Lat. from 
biddan. Sax. to pray or lupplicate.] An invitation of 
friends to drink ale at the houfe of fome poor man, who 
thereby hopes a charitable contribution for his relief: it 
is ftill in ufe in the weft of England : and is mentioned 
ftat. 26 Henry 8. c. 6'. And fo met hi ng like this feems to 
be what we commonly call houfe-warming, when perfons 
are invited and vifited in this manner on their firft begin¬ 
ning houfe-keeping. 
BIDASSO'A, a river which rifes in the Pyrenees, and 
runs into the fea, between Andaye and Fontarabia, fepa- 
rating France from Spain. This river was a long time a 
fiibjeftof difpute between France and Spain, each country 
laying an exclufive claim to it, but in the fifteenth century 
Louis XII. king of France, and Ferdinand king of Spain, 
agreed, that it fhould be common between the two nations, 
that the duties paid by thofe who pafs from Spain to 
France, fhould belong to the latter, and of thofe who pafs 
the contrary way, to the former. 
BID'BURG, a town of the Netherlands, in the duchy 
of Luxemburg, containing two parifh churches and a con¬ 
vent : eleven leagues north-north-eaft of Luxemburg, and 
and fix north-norrh-weft of Treves. 
BID'DEN, part. pajf. Invited.—Madam, the bidden 
guefts are come. Philips. —Commanded : 
’Tis thefe that early taint the female foul, 
Inftrud the eyes of young coquets to roll, 
Teach infants cheeks a bidden blufh to know, 
And little hearts to flutter at a beau. Pope. 
BID'DER, f. One who offers or propofes a price.—He 
looked upon feveral dreffes, expoled to the purchafe of 
the beft bidder. Addifon. 
BID'DING, f. Command; order: 
At his fecond bidding, darknefs fled, 
Light (hone, and order from diforder fprang. Milton. 
Bidding, or Offering, denotes the railing the price 
of a thing at a (ale or audition. The French call this cn- 
cherir. It anfwers to what the Romans called licitari: 
they tiled to bid by holding up the hand or finger. Bid¬ 
ding is alfo ufed for proclaiming or notifying. In which 
fenle we meet with bidding of the banns, the fame with what 
is otherwife called afking. 
Bidding Prayer. It was one part of the office of 
the deacons in the primitive Chriftian church, to be a fort 
of monitors and directors of the people in the exercife of 
their public devotions in the church. To which end they 
made ufe of certain known forms of words, to give notice 
when each part of the fervice began. This was called by 
the Greeks k sgvTTsn, and by the Latins predicate ; which 
therefore do not ordinarily fignify to preach, as fome miftake 
it ; but to perform the office of a crier praco) in the 
affembly : whence Synefius and others call the deacons 
isooxr,^t’xsc, the holy criers of the church, appointed to bid 
or exhort the congregation to pray and join in the feveral 
parts of the fervice of the church. Agreeable to this an¬ 
cient practice is the form Let us pray, repeated before fe¬ 
veral of the prayers in the Englilh liturgy. 
Bidding of the Beade, [bidding, from biddan, Sax.] 
Was anciently a charge or warning given by the pariIh- 
prieft to his parifhioncrs at fome (pedal times to come to 
prayers, either for the foul of fome friend departed, or 
upon fome other particular occalion. And at this day 
our minifters, on the Sunday preceding any feftival or ho¬ 
liday in the following week, give notice of them, and de- 
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