
1) Abides 2) Bides
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1) Anticipates 2) Attends upon 3) Bides time 4) Brings people food 5) Delays 6) Demonstrates patience 7) Does restaurant work 8) Gravel-voiced singer Tom 9) Holds on 10) Is at hand 11) Is expectant 12) Is in line 13) Is on hold 14) Is patient 15) Is ready 16) Lingers awhile 17) Long-line annoyances
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member of a small body of wind instrumentalists maintained by a city or town. Redlaw hears the Christmas Waits "playing somewhere in the distance" in The Haunted Man.
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WAITS was a heavily modified variant of Digital Equipment Corporation`s Monitor operating system (later renamed to, and better known as TOPS-10) for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 mainframe computers, used at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) from the mid-1960s up until 1991; the mainframe computer it ran on also went by the name of `.....
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musicians employed to play on ceremonial occasions
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Wide Area Information Transfer System
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Waits were street musicians. They were an established institution during the 17th century, wearing ' waits badges' with the town arms. Those of Exeter existed as early as 1400. Their instruments (hautbois) were also styled '
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