Bád

According to the Old English Dictionary:

bád

Add: I. a pledge:--Be bádum, Ll. Th. i. 354, 5. II. expectation, waiting:--Hwet is bád (expectatio) mín ?, Ps. Srt. 38, 8. Hé generede mé of þǽre báde (expectatione) Judéa folces, Gr. D. 107, 26. For þǽre báde his ændes, 282, 10. Hit neálǽhte þǽre tíde his deáþes . . . Hine þá on þǽre sáwle báde (while the soul expected its departure) ácsode his wíf, 301, 25. bad