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Bidal, or Bidall [fr. biddan, Sax., to pray] 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 housekeeping, 26 Hen. 8, c. 6.