biding

noun

1. An awaiting; expectation.

   “I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.”

2. (archaic)Residence; habitation.

   “For they brought us to their bidings about two miles from the harborough, where wee saw their women and lodging, which is nothing but the skin of some beast layd upon the ground : and over them in stead of houses, is nothing but five or sixe sticks layd acrosse, which stand upon two forkes with stickes on the ground and a fewe boughes layd on it.”

   “A moſt poore man, made tame to Fortunes blows Who, by the Art of knowne, and feeling ſorrowes, Am pregnant to good pity. Giue me your hand, Ile lead you to ſome biding.”

   “No, gracious Lady, Flanders claims my Birth; / At Antwerp has my conſtant biding been, / Where ſometimes I have known more plenteous Days / Than thoſe which now my failing Age affords.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bide