These are the meanings of the letters BEDIN when you unscramble them.
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Bend (v. t.)
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
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Bend (v. t.)
To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
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Bend (v. t.)
To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
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Bend (v. t.)
To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
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Bend (v. t.)
To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
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Bend (v. i.)
To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
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Bend (v. i.)
To jut over; to overhang.
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Bend (v. i.)
To be inclined; to be directed.
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Bend (v. i.)
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
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Bend (n.)
A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
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Bend (n.)
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
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Bend (n.)
A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
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Bend (n.)
The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
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Bend (n.)
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
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Bend (n.)
same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
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Bend (n.)
A band.
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Bend (n.)
One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
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Bide (v. t.)
To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
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Bide (v. t.)
To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.
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Bide (v. t.)
To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
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Bide (v. t.)
To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.
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Bind (v. t.)
To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
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Bind (v. t.)
To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.
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Bind (v. t.)
To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
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Bind (v. t.)
To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.
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Bind (v. t.)
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
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Bind (v. t.)
To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
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Bind (v. t.)
To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
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Bind (v. t.)
Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
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Bind (v. t.)
To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
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Bind (v. t.)
To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
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Bind (v. i.)
To tie; to confine by any ligature.
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Bind (v. i.)
To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
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Bind (v. i.)
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
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Bind (v. i.)
To exert a binding or restraining influence.
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Bind (n.)
That which binds or ties.
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Bind (n.)
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
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Bind (n.)
Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
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Bind (n.)
A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
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Bine (n.)
The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.
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Dine (v. i.)
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
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Dine (v. t.)
To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
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Dine (v. t.)
To dine upon; to have to eat.
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Nide (n.)
A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants.