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Beyond

Further away; at a distance; yonder.

Bezant

A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.

Bezel

The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

Bezique

A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.

Bezoar

A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

Bezoardic

Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar. A medicine containing bezoar.

Bezonian

A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.

Bezzle

To drink to excess; to revel.

Bhang

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

Bhunder

An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindus as sacred. See Rhesus.

Bhutan

a principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.

Bhutanese

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bhutan.

Bhutani

a native or inhabitant of Bhutan.

Biacid

Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

Biannual

Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.

Bias

To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

Biauriculate

Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Biaxial Biaxal

Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization; biaxial crystals.

Bib

To drink; to sip; to tipple.

Bibacity

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.

Bibasic

Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.

Bibb

A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.

Bibber

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

Bibbs

Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.

Bibcock

A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.

Bibelot

A small decorative object without practical utility.

Bibitory

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

Bibler

A great drinker; a tippler.

Biblical

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

Biblicality

The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject.

Biblicism

Learning or literature relating to the Bible.

Biblicist

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

Bibliography

a history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

Bibliolatry

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.

Bibliomancy

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

Bibliomaniac

One who has a mania for books. Relating to a bibliomaniac.

Bibliomaniacal

Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac.

Bibulous

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

Bibulously

In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption.

Bicalcarate

Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.

Bicameral

Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.

Bicapsular

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Bicarbonate

A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.

Bicarinate

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

Bicaudal

Having, or terminating in, two tails.

Bicentenary

Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.

Bicentennial

The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration.

Biceps

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

Bichir

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

Bichloride

A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride.

Bichromate

A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.

Bichromatize

To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.

Bicipital

Having two heads or origins, as a muscle. Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.

Bicker

A skirmish; an encounter.

Bickern

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

Bicolligate

Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.

Biconcave

Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebr/.

Biconjugate

Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.

Biconvex

Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

Bicorporate

Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.

Bicostate

Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.

Bicrenate

Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.

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