abode

[ABIDE.] ( Abode is connected with bode, the pa. par. of the A.S. verb bid an = to abide.) I. The state of abiding. 1. The state of residing for a longer or shorter period in any place; residence. "If a man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." -John κίν. 23. *2. Delay. "[He] having her from Tromp art lightly reared, Upon his courser sett the lovely lode, And with her filed away without abode ." Spenser: F. Q., III. viii. 19. II. The place where one resides; a habit a tion, a dwelling, a house, home, residence. "Come, let me lead you to our poor abode." Words worth: Excursion, bk. v.