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Bigamy

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

bigeminate

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

bigential

Including two tribes or races of men.

Bigeye

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

Biggen

To make or become big; to enlarge.

Biggin

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.

Bigha

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

Bighorn

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

Bight

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

Bigly

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

Bigness

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

Bignonia

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.

Bignoniaceae

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.

Bignoniaceous

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

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

Bigotry

The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

bigram

a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system.

Bigwig

A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.

Bihydroguret

A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance.

Bijou

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Bijoutry

Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

Bijugate

Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

Bike

A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.

Bikh

The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

bilabial

a consonant that is articulated using both lips, as p or b or w.

Bilabiate

Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.

Bilalo

A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

Bilamellated Bilamellate

Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.

Bilander

A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.

Bilateral

Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.

Bilberry

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.

Bilbo

A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.

Bilection

That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.

Bilestone

A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.

Bilge

To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).

bilges

in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side.

Bilgy

Having the smell of bilge water.

Biliary

Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.

Biliation

The production and excretion of bile.

Bilifuscin

A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

Bilimbing Bilimbi

The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalide/ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases.

Bilin

A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

Bilinear

Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear co/rdinates.

Bilingual

Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.

Bilinguous

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages.

Bilious

Of or pertaining to the bile.

Biliprasin

A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.

Bilirubin

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

Biliteral

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters.

Biliverdin

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

Bilk

A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

Bill

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Billabong

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

Billard

An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.

Billboard

A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.

Billbug Billbeetle

A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

Billed

Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.

Billet

A small stick of wood, as for firewood.

Billethead

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon line is run out when the whale darts off.

Billfish

A name applied to several distinct fishes The garfish (Tylosurus longirostris, or Belone longirostris) and allied species. The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

Billhead

A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

Billhook

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

Billiard

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.

Billiards

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

Billingsgate

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

Billion

According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

Billman

One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.

Billon

An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

Billot

Bullion in the bar or mass.

Billow

To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.

Billowy

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

Billy

A club; esp., a policeman's club. Also called billy club

Billyboy

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

billyoh billyo

a large amount; British say "it rained like billyo" where Americans say "it rained like the devil".

Bilobate

Divided into two lobes or segments.

Bilocation

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.

Bilocular

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

biloculate

divided into or containing two cells or chambers; as, having a biloculate capsule.

Biltong

Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.

Bimana

Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

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