Abide

a. To wait for; expect; attend; wait upon; await. "Poor harmle lambs abide their enmity."-Shak. "Bonds and afflictions abide me."- Acts xx. 23. To bear or support the consequences of a thing. "Ah me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain."- Milton. To bear or support patiently; to tolerate. Abid'er, n. One who abides or dwells. "She could not abide Master Shallow."- Shak . Aberyst'with, ( ab - ür -üst'with,) a town of Cardigans hire, N. Wales, seated on the Rheidol, near its conflu- Abid'ing, n. A waiting; a continuance. ence with the Ystwith, where it falls into the sea. Trades Abid'ingly, adv . Permanently. in lead, flannels, and oak-bark. A. is a fashionable watering-place, and seat of a Welsh University. Abes'ta, or Aves'ta, the name of one of the sacred books of the Persian magi, which they ascribe to their great founder Zoroaster. The Abesta is a commentary on two others of their religious books, called Zend and Pazend ; the three together including the whole system of the Ignicolæ, or worshippers of fire. Abet', v. a. [Lat. abettum , incitement.] To push forward another; to support him in his designs by connivance, encouragement, or help; -generally taken in an ill sense. "And you that do abet him in this kind, Cherish rebellion, and are rebels all." - Shak.