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Abiding
- verb -
- dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"
- Live
- unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths"
Balding
- verb - getting bald
- grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"
Banding
- verb - a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"
- bind or tie together, as with a band
Barding
- verb - put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion"
Beading
- verb - a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
- decorate by sewing beads onto; "bead the wedding gown"
- form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example
- ornamentation with beads
- string together like beads
Bedding
- verb - coverings that are used on a bed
- furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"
- have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"
- put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
Bending
- verb -
- bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- change direction; "The road bends"
- form a curve; "The stick does not bend"
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- the act of bending something
- the property of being bent or deflected
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
Bidding
- verb - (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make
- a request to be present; "they came at his bidding"
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
- ask someone in a friendly way to do something
- invoke upon; "wish you a nice evening"; "bid farewell"
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; "He called his trump"
- make a serious effort to attain something; "His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population"
- propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting"
Binding
- verb - bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
- cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you"
- create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
- executed with proper legal authority; "a binding contract"
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "They tied their victim to the chair"
- form a chemical bond with; "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
- one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall
- provide with a binding; "bind the books in leather"
- secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
- stick to firmly; "Will this wallp