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Bide

BIDE, verb intransitive To dwell; to inhabit.

1. To remain; to continue or be permanent, in a place or state. [Nearly antiquated.]

BIDE, verb transitive To endure; to suffer. [See Abide.]

Bidens

BI'DENS, noun A plant, bur marigold.

Bidental

BIDENT'AL, adjective [Latin bidens, of bis, twice, and dens, a tooth.] Having two teeth.

Bidet

BIDET', noun A small horse, formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.

Biding

BI'DING, participle present tense Dwelling; continuing; remaining. [See Abiding.]

BI'DING, noun Residence; habitation.

Bidon

BID'ON, noun A measure of liquids, of about five quarts, wine measure, used by seamen.

Biennial

BIEN'NIAL, adjective [Latin biennis, of bis, twice, and annus, a year.]

1. Continuing for two years and then perishing; as plants, whose root and leaves are formed the first year, and which produce fruit the second.

2. In botany, continuing for two years and then perishing; as plants, whose root and leaves are formed the first year, and which produce fruit the second.

Biennially

BIEN'NIALLY, adverb Once in two years; at the return of two years.

Bier

BIER, noun [Latin feretrum, from fero. See Bear.]

A carriage or frame of wood for conveying dead human bodies to the

grave.

Bier-Balk

BIE'R-BALK, noun The church road for burials. [Not used in America.]

Biestings

BIE'STINGS, noun plural The first milk given by a cow after calving.

Bifarious

BIFA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin bifarius; bis and fero, or Teutonic, faran, to go.]

Two-fold. In botany, pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch.

Bifariously

BIFA'RIOUSLY, adverb In a bifarious manner. A stem or branch is bifariously hairy, when the hairs between any two joints come out on the front and back, and in the two adjoining internodes, on the right and left side.

Biferous

BIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin bifer, biferus; of bis, twice, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing fruit twice a year, as plants do in warm climates.

Bifid

BIF'ID

BIF'IDATE, adjective [Latin bifidus, bifidatus, of bis, twice, and findo, fidi, to split or cleave. See Divide and Wide.]

In botany, two-cleft; divided; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

Bifidate

BIF'IDATE, a. [L. bifidus, bifidatus, of bis, twice, and findo, fidi, to split or cleave. See Divide and Wide.]

In botany, two-cleft; divided; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

Biflorous

BIF'LOROUS, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and floreo.] Bearing two flowers.

Bifold

BI'FOLD, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and fold.] Two-fold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc.

Biform

BI'FORM, adjective [Latin biformis, of bis, twice, and forma, form.]

Having two forms, bodies or shapes.

Biformed

BI'FORMED, adjective Compounded of two forms.

Biformity

BIFORM'ITY, noun A double form.

Bifurcate

BI'FURCATE

BI'FURCATED, adjective [Latin bifurcus, of bis, twice, and furca, a fork.]

Forked; divided into two branches.

Bifurcated

BI'FURCATED, a. [L. bifurcus, of bis, twice, and furca, a fork.]

Forked; divided into two branches.

Bifurcation

BIFURCA'TION, noun A forking, or division into two branches.

Big

BIG, adjective

1. Bulky; protuberant; pregnant, applied to females. big in the sense of pregnant, is followed by with; as, big with child. The use of of, big of child, is not good English.

2. Great; large; in a more general sense; applied to any body or object.

3. Full; fraught, and about to have vent, or be brought forth.

The important day, big with the fate of Rome.

4. Distended; full, as with grief or passion.

Thy heart is big get thee apart and weep.

5. Swelled; tumid; inflated, as with pride; hence, haughty in air or mien, or indicating haughtiness; proud; as big looks; big words; to look big

6. Great in spirit; lofty; brave.

Have not I a heart as big as thine?

BIG, noun A kind of barley.

Bigam

BIG'AM, noun A bigamist. [Not used.]

Bigamist

BIG'AMIST, noun [See Bigamy.] One who has committed bigamy, or had two wives at one.

Bigamy

BIG'AMY, noun [Latin bis, twice, and Gr. to marry, marriage.]

The crime of having two wives at once. But the term is ordinarily used as synonymous with Polygamy, and may be more justly defined, the crime of having a plurality of wives.

In the canon law, bigamy was the marrying a second wife after the death of the first, or once marrying a widow. This disqualified a man for orders, and holding ecclesiastical offices.

Bigbellied

BIG'BELLIED, adjective Having a great belly; advanced in pregnancy.

Bigboned

BIGBO'NED, adjective Having large bones.

Bigcorned

BIG'CORNED, adjective Having large grains.

Bigeminate

BIGEM'INATE, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and geminus, double.]

Twin-forked; used of a decompound leaf having a forked petiole, with several leaflets, at the end of each division.

Biggel

BIG'GEL, noun A quadruped of the East Indies, somewhat like a rane or rein-deer, but its head resembles that of a horse. It has two horns, cloven feet and a mane like an ass.

Biggin

BIG'GIN, noun

1. A child's cap, or something worn about the head.

2. A building.

Bight

BIGHT, noun

1. A bend, or small bay between two points of land.

2. The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the end; that is, a round, bend or coil anywhere except at the ends.

3. The inward bent of a horse's chambrel, and the bend of the fore knees.

Bigly

BIG'LY, adverb [from big.] In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily.

Bignamed

BIG'NAMED, adjective Having a great or famous name.

Bigness

BIG'NESS, noun Bulk; size; largeness; dimensions. It is used of any object, animate or inanimate, and with or without comparison. Thus we speak of the bigness of a tree, of a rock, of a house, without instituting a comparison with other objects of the kind. Yet in this case there is always some reference in the mind to known measure. We also say, one thing is as big as another; in which case we give the idea of unknown size, by a known object. Big and bigness always imply expansion, more or less, in breadth, and are thus distinguished from tall and tallness.

Bigot

BIG'OT, noun

1. A person who is obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, practice or ritual. The word is sometimes used in an enlarged sense, for a person who is illiberally attached to any opinion, or system of belief; as a bigot to the Mohammedan religion; a bigot to a form of government.

2. A venetian liquid measure containing the fourth part of the amphor, or half the boot.

BIG'OT

Bigoted

BIG'OTED, adjective Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion, practice or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal towards the opinions of others.

Bigotedly

BIG'OTEDLY, adverb In the manner of a bigot; pertinaciously.

Bigotry

BIG'OTRY, noun Obstinate or blind attachment to a particular creed, or to certain tenets; unreasonable zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect or opinion; excessive prejudice.

1. The practice or tenet of a bigot.

Bigsounding

BIG'SOUNDING, adjective Having a pompous sound.

Bigswoln

BIG'SWOLN, adjective [big and swoln. See Swell.]

Swelled to a large size; turgid; greatly swelled; ready to burst.

Biguddered

BIG'UDDERED, adjective [big and udder.]

Having large udders, or udders swelled with milk.

Bihydroguret

BIHYDROG'URET, noun A double hydroguret, or with two atoms of hydrogen.

Bijugous

BIJU'GOUS, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and jugum, a yoke, a pair.]

Having two pairs of leaflets; used of pinnated leaves.

Bilabiate

BILA'BIATE, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and labium, a lip.]

Having two lips, as the corols of flowers.

Bilamellate

BILAM'ELLATE, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and lamella, a plate.]

Having the form of a flatted sphere, longitudinally bifid; used of the stigma of plants.

Bilander

BI'LANDER, noun A small merchant vessel with two masts, distinguished from other vessels of two masts, by the form of the main-sail, which is bent to the whole length of a yard, hanging fore and aft, and inclined to the horizon in an angle of about 45 degrees; the foremost lower corner, called the tack, being secured to a ring-bolt in the deck, and the aftermost or sheet, to the tafferel. Few vessels are now rigged in this manner.

The bilander is a kind of hoy, manageable by four or five men and used chiefly in the canals of the Low Countries.

Bilateral

BILAT'ERAL, adjective [Latin bis and latus, side.] Having two sides.

Bilberry

BIL'BERRY, noun The name of a shrub and its fruit; a species of Vaccinium or whortle-berry. The name with us is given to the taller shrub and its fruit which is of a bluish color.

Bilbo

BIL'BO, noun [from Bilboa, in Spain.]

A rapier; a sword; so named, it is said, from Bilboa in Spain, where the best are made.

Bilboes

BIL'BOES, noun plural On board of ships, long bars or bolts of iron with shackles sliding on them, and a lock at the end, used to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders. Hence the punishment of offenders in this manner is called by the same name.

Bild

BILD, verb transitive preterit tense bilded, bilt; participle passive id.

To construct; to erect; to set up and finish; as, to bild a house or ship; to bild a wall. [This is the true orthography; the common spelling is incorrect. See Build.]

Bildstein

BILD'STEIN, noun Agalmatolite, or figure-stone. A massive mineral, with sometimes a slaty structure; of a color gray, brown, flesh red, sometimes spotted, or with blue veins. It fuses into a transparent glass. Brongniart calls it steatite pagodite, from its coming from China in grotesque figures.

This mineral resembles steatite in its physical characters, but differs from it essentially in its composition. It is soft, easily cut with a knife, and reducible to a fine unctuous powder.

Bile

BILE, noun [Latin bilis.] A yellow bitter liquor, separated from the blood in the liver, collected in the pori biliarii and gall bladder, and thence discharged by the common duct into the duodenum.

BILE, noun An inflamed tumor. [See Boil, the correct orthography.]

Bileduct

BI'LEDUCT, noun [bile and Latin ductus, a conduit.]

A vessel or canal to convey bile.

Bilestone

BI'LESTONE, noun [bile and stone.] A concretion of viscid.bile.

Bilge

BILGE, noun [A different orthography of bulge, and belly, a protuberance.]

1. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.

2. The breadth of a ship's bottom, or that part of her floor which approaches to a horizontal direction, on which she would rest, if aground. Hence, when this part of a ship is fractured, she is said to be bilged.

BILGE, verb intransitive To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge The term is used also when a ship has some of her timbers struck off by a rock or an anchor, and springs a leak.

Bilge-Pump

BILGE-PUMP, noun A burr-pump; a pump to draw the bilge-water from a ship.

Bilge-Water

BILGE-WATER, noun Water which enters a ship, and lies upon her bilge or bottom.

Bilged

BILG'ED, participle passive or adjective Having a fracture in the bilge. This participle is often used, as if the verb were transitive; and perhaps it is sometimes so used.

Biliary

BIL'IARY, noun Water which enters a ship, and lies upon her bilge or bottom.

BIL'IARY, adjective [from Latin bilis.] Belonging to the bile; conveying the bile; as a biliary duct.

Bilingsgate

BIL'INGSGATE, noun [from a place of this name in London frequented by low people who use foul language.]

Foul language; ribaldry.

Bilinguous

BILIN'GUOUS, adjective [Latin bis, and lingua, tongue.]

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages.

Bilious

BIL'IOUS, adjective [Latin biliosus, from bilis, the bile.]

Pertaining to bile; consisting or partaking of bile; caused by a redundancy, or bad state of the bile; as a bilious fever.

Biliteral

BILIT'ERAL, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and litera, letter.]

Consisting of two letters; as a biliteral root in language.

Bilk

BILK, verb transitive To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by non-fulfillment of engagement; as, to bilk a creditor.

Bilked

BILK'ED, participle passive Disappointed; deceived; defrauded.

Bilking

BILK'ING, participle present tense Frustrating; defrauding.

Bill

BILL, noun

1. The beak of a fowl.

2. An instrument used by plumbers, basket makers and gardeners, made in the form of a crescent, and fitted with a handle. When short, it is called a hand-bill; when long, a hedge-bill. It is used for pruning trees, etc.

BILL, noun

A pick-ax, or mattock; a battle-ax; an ax or hatchet with a crooked point.

BILL, noun

1. In law, a declaration in writing, expressing some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law. It contains the fact complained of, the damage sustained, and a petition or process against the defendant for redress. It is used both in civil and criminal cases.

In Scots law, every summary application in writing, by way of petition to the court of session, is called a bill

2. In law and in commerce, in England, an obligation or security given for money under the hand, and sometimes the seal of the debtor, without a condition or forfeiture for non-payment. In the latter circumstance, it differs from a bond. In the United States, this species of security is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

3. A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature, but not enacted. In some cases, statutes are called bills; but usually they are qualified by some description, as a bill of attainder.

4. A paper written or printed, and posted in some public place, advertising the proposed sale of goods, or particular things; an advertisement posted.

5. An account of goods sold or delivered, services rendered or work done, with the price or value annexed to each article.

6. Any written paper, containing a statement of particulars; as a bill of charges or expenditures; a physician's bill of prescriptions; a bill of fare or provisions, etc.

7. A bill of exchange is an order drawn on a person, in a distant place, requesting or directing him to pay money to some person assigned by the drawer, or to his order, in consideration of the same sum received by the drawer. Bills of exchange are either foreign or inland; foreign, when drawn by a person in one country upon one residing in another; inland, when both the drawer and drawee reside in the same country. The person who draws the bill is called the drawer; the person on whom the request or demand is made, is called the drawee; and the person to whom the money is directed to be paid, is called the payee.

8. A bill of entry is a written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation.

9. A bill of lading is a written account of goods shipped by any person, on board of a vessel, signed by the master of the vessel, who acknowledges the receipt of the goods, and promises to deliver them safe at the place directed, dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to sign two, three or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods.

10. A bill of parcels is an account given by the seller to the buyer, of the several articles purchased, with the price of each.

11. A bill of sale is when a person borrows money and delivers goods to the lender as security, and at the same time, gives him a bill empowering him to sell the goods, if the money is not repaid at the appointed time with interest.

In the United States, a bill of sale is a writing given by the seller of personal property to the purchaser, answering to a deed of real estate, but without seal.

12. A bill of mortality is an account of the number of deaths in a place, in a given time. In these bills it is not unusual to insert registers of births and christenings, as in London.

13. Bank-bill. [See Bank.]

14. A bill of rights is a summary of rights and privileges, claimed by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the lords and commons of England to the prince and princess of Orange in 1688. In America, a bill or declaration or rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several states.

15. A bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, was a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved.

16. [See Indictment.]

BILL, verb intransitive [from bill a beak.] To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.

BILL, verb transitive [from bill a writing.] To advertise by a bill or public notice; a cant word.

Billard

BILL'ARD, noun A bastard or imperfect capon; also a fish of the cod kind.

Billet

BILL'ET, noun [dim. of bill; ]

A small paper or note in writing, used for various purposes; sometimes it is a short letter, addressed to some person; sometimes a ticket directing soldiers at what house to lodge.

In heraldry, billet is a bearing in the form of a long square.

Billet-Doux

BILLET-DOUX, bil'le-doo. A love billet.

BILL'ET, noun A small stick of wood.

BILL'ET, verb transitive [from billet, a ticket.] To direct a soldier by a ticket or note where to lodge; hence, to quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.

Billeting

BILL'ETING, participle present tense Quartering, as soldiers in private houses.

Billiard

BILL'IARD, a bil'yard. Pertaining to the game of billiards.

Billiards

BILL'IARDS, noun plural bil'yards.

A game played on a rectangular table, covered with a green cloth, with small ivory balls, which the players aim to drive into hazardnets or pockets at the sides and corners of the tables, by impelling one ball against another, with maces, or cues, according to certain rules of the game.

Billion

BILL'ION, noun bil'yun. [bis and million.]

A million of millions; as many millions as there are units in a million.

Billow

BIL'LOW, noun A great wave or surge of the sea, occasioned usually by violent wind. It can hardly be applied to the waves of a river, unless in poetry, or when the river is very large.

BIL'LOW, verb intransitive To swell; to rise and roll in large waves, or surges.

Billow-Beaten

BIL'LOW-BEATEN, adjective Tossed by billows.

Billowing

BIL'LOWING, participle present tense Swelled into a large waves or surges.

Billowy

BIL'LOWY, adjective Swelling, or swelled into large waves; wavy; full of billows, or surges.

Bilobate

BILO'BATE, adjective [Latin bis, twice. See Lobe.] Divided into two lobes; as a bilobate leaf.

Bilobed

BILO'BED

BILOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and loculus, from locus, a place.]

Divided into two cells, or containing two cells internally; as a bilocular pericarp.

Bilva

BIL'VA, noun The Hindu name of a plant, the Crataeva Marmelos of Linne.

Bimanous

BIMA'NOUS, adjective [bis and manus.] Having two hands. Man is bimanous

Bimbow

BIM'BOW, adjective Crooked; arched; bent; as a kimbo handle.

To set the arms a kimbo, is to set the hands on the hips, with the elbows projecting outward.

Bimedial

BIME'DIAL, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and medial.] In mathematics, if two medial lines, A B and B C, commensurable only in power, and containing a rational rectangle, are compounded, the whole line A C will be irrational, and is called a first bimedial line.

1. Belonging to a quantity arising from a particular combination of two other quantities.

Binacle

BIN'ACLE, noun [Formerly bittacle.] A wooden case or box in which the compass and lights are kept on board a ship. It is sometimes divided into three apartments, with sliding shutters; the two sides contain each a compass, and the middle division, a lamp or candle.

Binary

BI'NARY, adjective [Latin binus, two and two.]

Binary arithmetic, the invention of Leibnitz, is that in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cypher multiplying every thing by two, as in common arithmetic by 10. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four; 101 is five; 110 is six; 111, is seven; 1000 is eight; 1001 is nine; 1010 is ten. It is said this species of arithmetic has been used by the Chinese for 4000 years, being left in enigma by Fohi.

Binary measure, in music, is that used in common time, in which the time of rising in beating, is equal to the time of falling.

Binary number is that which is composed of two units.

BI'NARY, noun The constitution of two.

Binate

BI'NATE, adjective [Latin biinus. See Binary.] Being double or in couples; growing in pairs. A binate leaf has a simple petiole, connecting two leaflets on the top; a species of digitate leaf.

Bind

BIND, verb transitive

1. To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.

2. To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

3. To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot.

4. To restrain in any manner.

He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job 28:11.

5. To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage.

If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond. Numbers 30:2.

We are bound by the laws of kindness, of nature, of a state, etc.

6. To confirm or ratify.

Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven. Matthew 16:19.

7. To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity.

Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years. Luke 13:1.

8. To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion.

I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem. Acts 20:1.

9. To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels.

10. To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet.

11. To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book.

12. To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire.

13. To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant.

14. To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth.

To bind to is to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife.

To bind over is to oblige by bond to appear at a court.

BIND, verb intransitive To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat.

1. To grow or become costive.

2. To be obligatory.

BIND, noun A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it.

1. A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole.

2. Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron.

Bind-Weed

BI'ND-WEED, noun A genus of plants, called Convolvulus, comprehending many species, as the white, the blue, the

Syrian bind-weed etc. The black briony or Tamus is called black bind-weed; and the Smilax is called rough bind-weed

Binder

BI'NDER, noun A person who binds; one whose occupation is to bind books; also, one who binds sheaves.

1. Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band.

Bindery

BI'NDERY, noun A place where books are bound.

Binding

BI'NDING, participle present tense Fastening with a band; confining; restraining; covering or wrapping; obliging by a promise or other moral tie; making costive; contracting; making hard or stiff.

BI'NDING, adjective That obliges; obligatory; as the binding force of a moral duty or of a command.

BI'NDING, noun The act of fastening with a band or obliging; a bandage; the cover of a book, with the sewing and accompanying work; any thing that binds; something that secures the edge of cloth.

1. In the art of defense, a method of securing or crossing the adversary's sword with a pressure, accompanied with a spring of the wrist.

Binding-joists, in architecture, are the joists of a floor into which the trimmers of staircases, or well holes of the stairs and chimney ways, are framed.

Bing

BING, noun In alum works, a heap of alum thrown together in order to drain.

Binocle

BIN'OCLE, noun [binus, double, and oculus, and eye.]

A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once.

Binocular

BINOC'ULAR, adjective [See Binocle.] Having two eyes; also, having two apertures or tubes, so joined that one may use both eyes at once in viewing a distant object; as a binocular telescope.

Binomial

BINO'MIAL, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and nomen, name.]

In algebra, a root consisting of two members connected by the sign plus or minus; as a+b, or 7-3.

Binominous

BINOM'INOUS, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and nomen, name.]

Having two names.

Binotonous

BINOT'ONOUS, adjective [bis and note.] Consisting of two notes; as a binotonous cry.

Biographer

BIOG'RAPHER, noun [See Biography.] One who writes an account of history of the life and actions of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

Biographic

BIOGRAPH'IC

BIOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to biography, or the history of the life of a person; containing biography.

Biographical

BIOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to biography, or the history of the life of a person; containing biography.

Biography

BIOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr.life, and to write.]

The history of the life and character of a particular person.

Biotina

BIOTINA, noun [from Biot, a French naturalist.]

A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, whose primitive form is that of an obtuse rhomboid.

Biparous

BIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and pario, to bear.]

Bringing forth two at a birth.

Bipartible

BIPART'IBLE

BIPAR'TIENT, [Latin bis, twice, and partio, partiens, to divide.] Dividing into two parts.

Bipartile

BIP'ARTILE , adjective [Latin bis, twice, and partio, to divide.]

That may be divided in two parts.

Bipartite

BIP'ARTITE, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and partitus, divided.]

1. Having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party.

2. In botany, divided into two parts to the base, as a leaf.

Bipartition

BIPARTI'TION, noun The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts.

Biped

BI'PED, noun [Latin bipes, of bis, twice, and pes, pedis, a foot.]

An animal having two feet, as man.

Bipedal

BIP'EDAL, adjective Having two feet, or the length of two feet.

Bipennate

BIPEN'NATE, adjective [Latin bis, and penna, a wing or feather.] Having two wings.

1. In botany, having pinnate leaves on each side of the petiole, as a leaf or frond.

Bipennatifid

BIPEN'NATIFID, adjective [Latin bis, twice, pinna, a wing or feather, and findo, to divide.]

Doubly-pinnatifid; having pinnatifid leaves on each side of the petiole.

Bipetalous

BIPET'ALOUS, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and Gr. a leaf.]

Consisting of two flower leaves; having two petals.

Bipinnatifid

BIPIN'NATIFID

BIQUAD'RATE, noun [Latin bis, twice, and quadratus, squared.]

In mathematics the fourth power, arising from the multiplication of a square number or quantity by itself. Thus 4x4=16, which is the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of that number.

Biquadrate

BIQUAD'RATE, n. [L. bis, twice, and quadratus, squared.]

In mathematics the fourth power, arising from the multiplication of a square number or quantity by itself. Thus 4x4=16, which is the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of that number.

Biquadratic

BIQUADRAT'IC, noun The same as biquadrate.

BIQUADRAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the biquadratic or fourth power.

Biquadratic equation, in algebra, is an equation raised to the fourth power, or where the unknown quantity of one of the terms has four dimensions.

Biquadratic parabola, in geometry, is a curve line of the third order, having two infinite legs tending the same way.

Biquadratic root of a number, is the square root of the square root of that number. Thus the square root of 9 is 3, which is the biquadratic root of 81.

Biquintile

BIQUIN'TILE, noun [Latin bis, twice, and quintus, fifth.]

An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other, by twice the fifth part of a great circle, that is 144 degrees or twice 72 degrees.

Biradiate

BIRA'DIATE

BIRA'DIATED, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and radiatus, set with rays.]

Having two rays; as a biradiate fin.

Birch

BIRCH, noun burch. A genus of trees, the Betula, of which there are several species; as the white or common birch the dwarf birch the Canada birch of which there are several varieties, and the common black birch

BIRCH of Jamaica, a species of the Pistacia or turpentine tree.

BIRCH

Birchen

BIRCH'EN, adjective Made of birch; consisting of birch.

Bird

BIRD, noun burd.

1. Properly, a chicken, the young of fowls, and hence a small fowl.

2. In modern use, any fowl or flying animal.

It is remarkable that a nation should lay aside the use of the proper generic name of flying animals, and substitute the name of the young of those animals, as the generic term. The fact is precisely what it would be to make lamb, the generic name of sheep, or colt, that of the equine genus.

BIRD, verb transitive To catch birds.

BIRD of paradise, a genus of birds, found in the Oriental isles, and in New Guinea; some of them remarkable beautiful. The beak is covered with a belt or collar of downy feathers at the base, and the feathers on the sides are very long. The longest species is two feet four inches in length. The head and back part of the neck are lemon-colored; the neck of the brightest emerald green, soft like velvet; the breast is black; the wings of a chestnut color. The back part of the body is covered with long straight narrow feathers, of a pale brown color, similar to the plumes of the ostrich. These are spread when the bird flies, for which reason he cannot keep long on the wing. From the rump proceed two long stiff shafts, feathered at the extremities.

Bird-Cage

BIRD'-CAGE, noun [bird and cage.] A box or case with wires, small sticks, or wicker, forming open work, for keeping birds.

BIRD'-CALL, noun [bird and call.] A little stick, cleft at one end, in which is put a leaf of some plant for imitating the cry of birds. A laurel leaf counterfeits the voice of lapwings; a leek, that of nightingales; etc.

Bird-Catcher

BIRD'-CATCHER, noun [bird and catch.] One whose employment is to catch birds; a fowler.

Bird-Catching

BIRD'-CATCHING, noun [bird and catch.] The art of taking birds or wild fowls, either for food, for pleasure, or for their destruction, when pernicious to the husbandman.

BIRD'-CHERRY, noun [bird and cherry.] A tree, a species of Prunus, called padus; there are other species called by the same name.

Bird-Eye

BIRD'-EYE

BIRD'-LIME, noun [bird and lime.] A viscous substance, usually made of the juice of holly-bark, extracted by boiling, mixed with a third-part of nut oil or thin grease, used to catch birds. For this purpose, the twigs of a bush are smeared over with this viscid substance.

BIRD'-LIMED, adjective Smeared with bird-lime; spread to ensnare.

BIRD'-MAN, noun [bird and man.] A fowler or bird-catcher.

BIRD'-PEPPER, noun [bird and pepper.] A species of Capsicum or Guinea-pepper; a shrubby plant, bearing a small oval fruit, more biting than the other sorts.

Birdbolt

BIRD'BOLT, noun [bird and bolt.] An arrow, broad at the end, for shooting birds.

Birder

BIRD'ER, noun A bird-catcher.

Birdeyed

BIRD'EYED, adjective Of quick sight.

Birding-Piece

BIRD'ING-PIECE, noun [bird and piece.] A fowling-piece.

BIRD'-LIKE, adjective Resembling a bird.

Birds-Eye

BIRD'S-EYE, adjective [bird and eye.] Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; as a bird-eye landscape.

Birdseye

BIRDS'EYE, noun [bird and eye.] A genus of plants, called also pheasant's eye, known in botany by the generic term Adonis. There are several species, some of which produce beautiful flowers.

Birdsfoot

BIRDS'FOOT, noun [bird and foot.] A plant, the Ornithopus, whose legumen is articulated, cylindrical, and bent in the form of a bow.

Birdsfoot-Trefoil

BIRDSFOOT-TREFOIL, noun A genus of plants, the Lotus, of several species.

Birdsnest

BIRDS'NEST, noun [bird and nest.] The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.

1. A plant, a species of Ophrys or twyblade; also a species of Orchis.

2. In cookery, the nest of a small swallow, of China, and the neighboring countries, delicately tasted, and mixed with soups. This nest is found in the rocks; it is of a hemispherical figure, of the size of a goose egg, and in substance resembles isinglass. In the East, these nests are esteemed a great luxury, and sell at a very high price.

Bireme

BI'REME, noun [Latin biremis, bis and remus, and oar.]

A vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

Birgander

BIRG'ANDER, noun The name of a wild goose.

Birhomboidal

BIRHOMBOID'AL, adjective [bis and rhomboid.]

Having a surface composed of twelve rhombic faces, which, being taken six and six, and prolonged in idea, till they intercept each other, would form two different rhombs.

Birken

BIRK'EN, verb transitive [from birch.] To beat with a burch or rod.

Birostrate

BIROS'TRATE

BIROS'TRATED, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and rostrum, a beak.]

Having a double beak, or process resembling a beak.

The capsule is bilocular and birostrated.

Birostrated

BIROS'TRATED, a. [L. bis, twice, and rostrum, a beak.]

Having a double beak, or process resembling a beak. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated.

Birt

BIRT, noun burt. A fish, called also turbot.

Birth

BIRTH, noun berth. [Latin partus, the participle of pario, to bear.]

1. The act of coming into life, or of being born. Except in poetry, it is generally applied to human beings; as the birth of a son.

2. Lineage; extraction; descent; as, Grecian birth

It is used of high or low extraction; but is often used by way of distinction for a descent from noble or honorable parents and ancestors; as a man of birth

3. The condition in which a person is born.

A foe by birth to Troy.

4. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

5. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth

6. In a theological sense, regeneration is called the new birth

7. Origin; beginning; as the birth of an empire.

BIRTH, BERTH, noun A station in which a ship rider. [See Berth.]

Birthday

BIRTH'DAY, noun [birth and day.] The day in which any person is born.

1. The same day of the month, in which a person was born, in every succeeding year; often celebrated as a joyful anniversary. It sometimes has the form of an attribute; as a birth-day ode.

Birthdom

BIRTH'DOM, noun [birth and dom.] Privilege of birth. [Not used.]

Birthing

BIRTH'ING, noun Any thing added to raise the sides of a ship.

Birthnight

BIRTH'NIGHT, noun [birth and night.] The night in which a person is born; and the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.

Birthplace

BIRTH'PLACE, noun [birth and place.] The town, city or country, where a person is born; more generally, the particular town, city, or other local district.

Birthright

BIRTH'RIGHT, noun [birth and right.] Any right or privilege, to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution.

Esau, for a morsel, sold his birthright Hebrews 12:16.

It may be used in the sense of primogeniture, or the privilege of the first born, but is applicable to any right which results from descent.

BIRTH'-SONG, noun A song sung at the birth of a person.

BIRTH'-STRANGLED, adjective [birth and strangle.] Strangled or suffocated in being born.

Birthwort

BIRTH'WORT, noun [birth and wort.] A genus of plants, Aristolochia, of many species. Of these are the snake root of America, and the contrayerva of Jamaica.

Bisa

BISA

BIS'COTIN, noun A confection, made of flour, sugar, marmalade and eggs.

Biscotin

BIS'COTIN, n. A confection, made of flour, sugar, marmalade and eggs.

Biscuit

BIS'CUIT, noun bis'kit. [Latin bis, twice, and cuit, baked.]

1. A kind of bread, formed into cakes, and baked hard for seamen.

2. A cake, variously made, for the use of private families. The name, in England, is given to a composition of flour, eggs, and sugar. With us the name is given to a composition of flour and butter, made and baked in private families. But the compositions under this denomination are very various.

3. The body of an earthen vessel, in distinction from the glazing.

Bisdiapason

DISDIAPASON, BISDIAPASON noun [See Diapason.] In music, a compound concord in the quadruple ratio of 4:1 or 8:2.

Bisect

BISECT', verb transitive [Latin bis, twice, and seco, sectum, to cut. See Section.]

To cut or divide into two parts. In geometry, one line bisects another when it crosses it, leaving an equal part of the line on each side of the point where it is crossed.

Bisected

BISECT'ED, participle passive Divided into two equal parts.

Bisecting

BISECT'ING, participle present tense Dividing into two equal parts.

Bisection

BISEC'TION, noun The act of cutting into two equal parts; the division of any line or quantity into two equal parts.

Bisegment

BISEG'MENT, noun [bis and segment.] One of the parts of a line, divided into two equal parts.

Bisexous

BISEX'OUS, adjective Consisting of both sexes.

Bishop

BISH'OP, noun [Latin episcopus; Gr. of, over, and inspector, or visitor; to view, or inspect; whence, to visit; also, to view. This Greek and Latin word accompanied the introduction of christianity into the west and north of Europe.]

1. An overseer; a spiritual superintendent, ruler or director; applied to Christ.

Ye were as sheep going astray, but are now returned to the shepherd and bishop of your souls. 1. Pet.2.

2. In the primitive church, a spiritual overseer; an elder or presbyter; one who had the pastoral care of a church.

The same persons are in this chapter called elders or presbyters, and overseers or bishops. Scott, Comm. Acts 20:1.

Till the churches were multiplied, the bishops and presbyters were the same. Ib. Philippians 1:1. 1. Tim.3.1. Titus 1:7.

Both the Greek and Latin fathers do, with one consent, declare, that bishops were called presbyters, and presbyters bishops, in apostolic times, the name being then common.

3. In the Greek, Latin, and some Protestant churches, a prelate, or person consecrated for the spiritual government and direction of a diocese. In Great Britain, bishops are nominated by the king, who, upon request of the dean and chapter, for leave to elect a bishop sends a conge d'elire, or license to elect, with a letter missive, nominating the person whom he would have chosen. The election, by the chapter, must be made within twelve days, or the king has a right to appoint whom he pleases. Bishops are consecrated by an archbishop, with two assistant bishops. A bishop must be thirty years of age; and all bishops, except the bishop of Man, are peers of the realm.

By the canons of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States, no diocese or state shall proceed to the election of a bishop unless there are at least six officiating presbyters residing therein, who shall be qualified, according to the canons, to vote for a bishop; a majority of whom at least must concur in the election. But the conventions of two or more dioceses, or states, having together nine or more such presbyters, may join in the election of a bishop A convention is composed of the clergy, and a lay delegation, consisting of one or more members from each parish. In every state, the bishop is to be chosen according to such rules as the convention of that state shall ordain. The mode of election, in most or all of the states, is by a concurrent vote of the clergy and laity, in convention, each body voting separately. Before a bishop can be consecrated, he must receive a testimonial of approbation from the General Convention of the church; or if that is not in session, from a majority of the standing committee in the several dioceses. The mode of consecrating bishops and ordaining priests and deacons differs not essentially from the practice in England.

BISHOP, noun A cant word for a mixture of wine, oranges, and sugar.

BISHOP, verb transitive to confirm; to admit solemnly into the church.

1. Among horse-dealers, to use arts to make an old horse look like a young one, or to give a good appearance to a bad horse.

Bishoplike

BISH'OPLIKE, adjective Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.

Bishopric

BISH'OPRIC, noun [bishop and ric, jurisdiction.]

1. A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of bishop extends. in England, are twenty-four bishoprics, besides that of Sodor and Man; in Ireland, eighteen.

2. The charge of instructing and governing in spiritual concerns; office. Acts 1:20.

Bishopsweed

BISH'OPSWEED, noun [bishop and used.] A genus of plants, with the generic name Ammi.

Bishopswort

BISH'OPSWORT, noun A plant.

Bisk

BISK, noun Soup or broth, made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.

Bisket

BISK'ET, a biscuit. This orthography is adopted by many respectable writers.

Bismuth

BIS'MUTH, noun s as z. A metal of a yellowish or reddish white color, and a lamellar texture. It is somewhat harder than lead, and scarcely, of at all, malleable, being so brittle as to break easily under the hammer, and it is reducible to powder. Its internal face or fractrue exhibits large shining plates, variously disposed. It melts at 476 degrees Fahr. and may be fused in the flame of a candle. It is often found in a native state, crystallized in rhombs or octahedrons, or in the form of dendrites, or thin lamens investing the ores of other metals, particularly cobalt.

Bismuthal

BIS'MUTHAL, adjective Consisting of bismuth, or containing it.

Bismuthic

BIS'MUTHIC, adjective Pertaining to bismuth; as bismuthic acid.