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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Residence; habitation.

Rowe.

ppr.

Dwelling; continuing; remaining. [See Abiding.]

Noun.

Residence; habitation.

See also: bìdìng

biding ‎(plural bidings)

An awaiting; expectation.
- 2007, Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand:
  I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.
(archaic) Residence; habitation
- Hakluyt
  They brought us to their bidings about two miles from the harbour.
- 1776, Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore:
  At Antwerp has my constant biding been, [...]

From bide +‎ -ing.

biding