BIDAL, OR BIDALL
\bˈɪdə͡l], \bˈɪdəl], \b_ˈɪ_d_əl]\
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An invitation of friends to drink ale at the house of some poor man, who hopes thereby to be relieved by charitable contribution. It is something like "house-warming," i. e., a visit of friends to a person beginning to set up house-keep- in the ancient records it is used for any cart, ing. Wharton. wain, or wagon. Jacob.
By Henry Campbell Black
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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