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.

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.

In the manner of a bigot.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

Bijugate.

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

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

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

Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.

Doubly fringed.

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

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

Formed of, or having, two lamin/, or thin plates.

A byland.

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

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

State of being bilateral.

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

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

The toy called cup and ball.

The European water rail.

Same as Agalmatolite.

A boil.

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

A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.

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

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

Having the smell of bilge water.

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

The production and excretion of bile.

Generating bile.

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

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.

A woman's ornament; habiliment.

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.

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

Quality of being bilingual.

See Bilingual.

One versed in two languages.

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages.

Of or pertaining to the bile.

The state of being bilious.

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

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

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

The property or state of being biliteral.

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

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

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

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.

Same as Bilge.

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

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.

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

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

A small stick of wood, as for firewood.

A love letter or note.

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.

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).

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

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.

Of or pertaining to the game of 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.

Caressing; kissing.

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

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.

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

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

Bullion in the bar or mass.

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

rising in billows.

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

One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

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

see billy, n. 1.

a policeman's club; a nightstick.

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake.

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

a policeman's club.

Divided into two lobes or segments.

divided into two lobes.

Bilobate.

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

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

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

See Sweet gum.

Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.

Having, or marked with, two spots.

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

Having two hands; two-handed.

Having a double margin, as certain shells.

The condition of having two mamm/ or teats.

Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence.