The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject.
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According to the Bible.
Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.
Bibliographer.
One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.
Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books.
a history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.
A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.
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.
Relating to bibliology.
A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.
A mania for acquiring books.
One who has a mania for books. Relating to a bibliomaniac.
Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac.
Relating to the binding of books.
A bookbinder.
Pertaining to the art of binding books.
The art of binding books.
A lover of books.
Love of books.
A lover of books.
A dread of books.
Of or pertaining to the sale of books.
One who sells books.
The trade or business of selling books.
Same as Bibliopole.
Of or pertaining to bibliopolism.
One who hides away books, as in a tomb.
A librarian.
A library.
Belonging to a library.
A librarian.
A library.
Furnished with, or having, two bracts.
Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.
In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption.
Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.
Having two callosities or hard spots.
Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.
Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.
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.
Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.
Having, or terminating in, two tails.
Two-tailed; bicaudal.
Pecked; pitted; notched.
Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.
The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration.
Having two heads.
A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.
A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride.
See Jigger.
A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.
To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.
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.
Having two heads; bicipital.
A skirmish; an encounter.
One who bickers.
A skirmishing.
Contention.
An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.
Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.
Of two colors.
having two colors.
Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebr/.
Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.
Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.
Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
Having two bodies.
Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.
Having the form of a double crescent.
Having two legs.
One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.
See Dicyanide.
A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
One who rides a bicycle.
Relating to bicycles.
The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.
The art of riding a bicycle.
A bicycler.
Relating to bicycling.
To pray.
An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief.
A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame.
Obedient; docile.
p. p. of Bid.
One who bids or offers a price.
Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.
An Irish serving woman or girl.
To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
An instrument or weapon with two prongs.
Having two teeth.
Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.
Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.
Residence; habitation.
To shelter.
See Andromede and cf. Biela's comet.
Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
Once in two years.
A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.
Having the opposite surfaces alike.
Twofold; arranged in two rows.
In a bifarious manner.
Bearing fruit twice a year.
A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
See Bifid.
Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
Flabellate on both sides.
Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.
Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.
a bifocal lens.
eyeglasses whose lenses have two foci, allowing the wearer to see both far and nearby objects clearly. The lenses are partitioned horizontally, the upper and lower parts having different focal lengths.
Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc.
Having two leaves; two-leaved.
Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.
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