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.

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.

Having two perforations.

An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Arace/. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

Bifurcate.

Having two forms, bodies, or shapes.

Having two forms.

A double form.

Before.

See Biforate.

Having two fronts.

To divide into two branches.

Two-pronged; forked.

A forking, or division into two branches.

See Bifurcate, a.

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

New York City; -- a nickname, usually written The Big Apple.

The explosive event marking the beginning of the known universe, according to big bang theory; the beginning of time.

The theory that the known universe originated in an explosive event (the big bang) in which all of the matter and energy of the universe was contained in a single point and began to rapidly expand and evolve, starting as high-energy particles and radiation, and, as it cooled over time, evolving into ordinary subatomic particles, atoms, and then stars and galaxies. According to this theory, the four-dimensional space-time continuum which we perceive as our universe continues to expand to the present time, but it is unknown whether the expansion will continue indefinitely or eventually stop or even reverse, possibly leading to a contraction to a single point sometimes referred to as the /big crunch/. The competing /Steady-state Theory/ gradually lost favor in the 1980's and 1990's. See also big bang.

The New York Stock Exchange; -- a nickname often used in financial reporting.

Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.

having unusually large shoulders.

same as expensive, but in an absolute sense; -- referring to items of a type which are all expensive, such as automobiles, refrigerators, or large-screen television sets.

characterized by pomposity of manner.

A two-horse chariot.

A bigamist.

One who is guilty of bigamy.

Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.

The large white-heart cherry.

Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.

Including two tribes or races of men.

A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.

See Big, n. v.

To build.

To make or become big; to enlarge.

compar. of Big.

superl. of Big.

A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

A building.

A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.

A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.

given or giving freely.

The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis montana or Caprovis montana); called also bighorn sheep.

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

Having two glands, as a plant.

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.

The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. Bignonia capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper (also called the trumpet vine), with large red tubular flowers, was formerly considered to be of this genus, but is now classified as Campsis radicans.

a natural family comprising the trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having gourdlike or capsular fruit; the are sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower (also called trumpet creeper and trumpet vine) is an example.

Bigoted.