Word Meanings - BIDDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Command; order; a proclamation or notifying. "Do thou thy master's bidding." Shak. 2. The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• AUCTION BRIDGE
  A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• NOTIFY
  1. To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth. 2. To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the
• AUCTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. With auctionary hammer in thy hand. Dryden.
• OFFERTURE
  Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• BIDDABLE
  Obedient; docile.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.