An omen; a foreshadowing.
A stop; a halting; delay.
A herald; a messenger.
simple past tense of bide
To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
A clue.
A small, barely detectable amount.
An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
To develop and add hints to a font.
To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.