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.
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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.
See Bimonthly, a.
Continuing two months.
a material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals.
Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.
An advocate of bimetallism.
of or pertaining to bimetallism.
a span of 2000 years.
of or pertaining to the bimillennium.
a span of 2000 years.
a valuable fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus) of the East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
having or occurring with two modes{9}; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution.
Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).
Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. A bimonthly publication.
Once in two months.
having two motors.
Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
Twofold; double.
A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.
That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.
Double; growing in pairs or couples.
Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.
A major in the Turkish army.
That which binds or ties.
One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.
The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
So as to bind.
The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.
A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (Convolvulus Sepium); lesser bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis); the white bindweed, the blue bindweed, the Syrian bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.
Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.
A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.
a game commonly used for low-stakes gambling, in which numbered balls or slips are drawn at random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards, called Bingo cards, which have square arrangement of such numbers. Each card has a different arrangement of the numbers, and the first player to cover all numbers in one row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) is the winner, usually announcing that fact by a cry of /Bingo!/
Same as Diiodide.
A bench.
A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.
A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.
A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
In a binocular manner.
Having two eyes.
Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.
Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.
Binominal.
Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry.
Same as Binate.
A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.
Same as Dioxide.
A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis.
Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.
Having two nucleoli.
a prefix meaning of or pertaining to life, produced by living things, etc.
acting upon or influencing bodily functions; -- of chemical substances.
to subject to a bio-assay.
Same as Bioplast.
a biochemical catalyst such as an enzyme.
of or pertaining to a biocatalyst.
Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.
a chemical substance produced by a living organism, or such a substance produced synthetically.
The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
Of or pertaining to biodynamics, or the doctrine of vital forces or energy.
The doctrine of vital forces or energy.
electric phenomena in animals or plants.
biological science applied to the study the relation between workers and their environments.
a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them.
a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation; -- called also vitamin P and citrin.
Bioplasm.
Pertaining to biogenesis.
produced by living organisms; as, biogenic methane.
A believer in the theory of biogenesis.
the production of living organisms from other living organisms; same as biogenesis{1}.
A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- called also biogeny; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Life development generally.
of or pertaining to biogeography.
The branch of biology which deals with the geographical distribution of animals and plants. It includes both zo/geography and phytogeography.
The investigation of life.
An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph.
One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.
To write a history of the life of.
The written history of a person's life.
Of or relating to biology.
use of biological principles in explaining human behavior, especially social behavior.
A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
of or pertaining to biologism.
The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
a type of luminescence produced by biological or biochemical processes, such as a glowworm glow or the action of luciferase on luciferin. A well-known example is that of firefly luminescence. See also luciferin.
The destruction of life.
Relating to the destruction of life.
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