Crossword-Solution: BIDENT 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Fancy the first young gentleman living employing such a weapon in such a way! The most elegant Prince of Europe engaged with a two-pronged iron fork--the heir of Britannia with a BIDENT! The man of genius who drew that picture saw little of the society which he satirized and amused.

Above his head are the mythic symbols of Assyrian worship, the winged globe, the crescent, the star, the bident, and the horned cap.

When a bull will not run at the fatal flag, or prays for pardon, he is doomed to a dishonourable death, as no true Spaniard begs for his own life, or spares that of his foe, when in his power; now the _media Luna_ is yelled for, and the call implies insult; the use is equivalent to shooting traitors in the back: this _half moon_ is the precise Oriental ancient and cruel instrument of houghing cattle; moreover it is the exact old Iberian bident, or a sharp steel crescent placed on a long pole.

When they thus behold all the wonders of terrestrial existence, including its choicest perfection, Man, is it surprising that they “utter a squeaking or hissing sound,” or _teste_ Masterman, “cat-like squeak”? The methods of fishing in Palestine, like those (save Angling) of Egypt and the ancient world, were:— (A) The spear, harpoon, and bident (still used in Lebanon and Syria) of which we read in Job xli.