A herald; a messenger.
A stop; a halting; delay.
An omen; a foreshadowing.
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.
One who bears a message; a messenger.
Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.
The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.