bīdan, st. v.: 1) _to delay, to stay, to remain, to wait_: inf. nō on wealle leng bīdan wolde, _would not stay longer within the wall_ (the drake), 2309; pret. in þȳstrum bād, _remained in darkness_, 87; flota stille bād, _the craft lay still_, 301; receda ... on þǣm se rīca bād, _where the mighty one dwelt_, 310; þǣr se snottra bād, _where the wise man_ (Hrōðgār) _waited_, 1314; hē on searwum bād, _he_ (Bēowulf) _stood there armed_, 2569; ic on earde bād mǣlgesceafta, _lived upon the paternal ground the time appointed me by fate_, 2737; pret. pl. sume þǣr bidon, _some remained, waited there_, 400.--2) _to await, to wait for_, with the gen. of that which is awaited: inf. bīdan woldon Grendles gūðe, _wished to await the combat with Grendel, to undertake it_, 482; similarly, 528; wīges bīdan, _await the combat_, 1269; nalas andsware bīdan wolde, _would await no answer_, 1495; pret. bād beadwa geþinges, _awaited the event of the battle_, 710; sǣgenga bād āgend-frēan, _the sea-goer_ (boat) _awaited its owner_, 1883; sele ... heaðowylma bād, lāðan līges (the poet probably means to indicate by these words that the hall Heorot was destroyed later in a fight by fire; an occurrence, indeed, about which we know nothing, but which 1165 and 1166, and again 2068 ff. seem to indicate), 82. ā-bīdan, _to await_, with the gen.: inf., 978. ge-bīdan: 1) _to tarry, to wait_: imp. gebīde gē on beorge, _wait ye on the mountain_, 2530; pret. part. þēah þe wintra lȳt under burhlocan gebiden hæbbe Hæreðes dōhtor _although H's daughter had dwelt only a few years in the castle_, 1929.--2) _to live through, to experience, to expect_ (w. acc.): inf. sceal endedæg mīnne gebīdan, _shall live my last day_, 639; ne wēnde ... bōte gebīdan, _did not hope ... to live to see reparation_, 935; fela sceal gebīdan lēofes and lāðes, _experience much good and much affliction_, 1061; ende gebīdan, 1387, 2343; pret. hē þæs frōfre gebād, _received consolation_ (compensation) _therefore_, 7; gebād wintra worn, _lived a great number of years_, 264; in a similar construction, 816, 930, 1619, 2259, 3117. With gen.: inf. tō gebīdanne ōðres yrfeweardes, _to await another heir_, 2453. With depend, clause: inf. tō gebīdanne þæt his byre rīde on galgan, _to live to see it, that his son hang upon the gallows_, 2446; pret. drēam-lēas gebād þæt hē..., _joyless he experienced it, that he_..., 1721; þæs þe ic on aldre gebād þæt ic..., _for this, that I, in my old age, lived to see that_..., 1780. on-bīdan, _to wait, to await_: pret. hordweard onbād earfoðlīce oð þæt ǣfen cwōm, _scarcely waited, could scarcely delay till it was evening_, 2303. bītan, st. v., _to bite_, of the cutting of swords: inf. bītan, 1455, 1524; pret. bāt bānlocan, _bit into his body_ (Grendel), 743; bāt unswīðor, _cut with less force_ (Bēowulf's sword), 2579. blanca, w. m., properly _that which shines_ here of the horse, not so much of the white horse as the dappled: dat. pl. on blancum, 857.