Bringing forth two at a birth.

Capable of being divided into two parts.

Dividing into two parts. A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.

Divisible into two parts.

Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

Having two margins toothed like a comb.

Having two feet; two-footed.

Having two feet; biped.

Having a shell or covering like a double shield.

Having two wings.

An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.

Having two petals.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage.

Twice pinnate.

Doubly pinnatifid.

Having, or consisting of, two superposed planes, a/rocurves, or the like; of or pertaining to a biplane; as, a biplane rudder.

Twice folded together.

The state of being twice folded; reduplication.

Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.

Bipolar quality.

Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium (Zweibr/cken), in Bavaria.

A prism whose refracting angle is very nearly 180 degrees.

Having two punctures, or spots.

Having two points.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.

The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

A biquadrate. A biquadratic equation.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

consisting of, combining two races.

showing both bilateral and radial symmetry.

Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin.

Having, or consisting of, two branches.

To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.

a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree.

Of or relating to birch.

To catch or shoot birds.

Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.

a common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America (Polygala paucifolia), having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.

A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.

A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.

A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.

An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States.

The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.

Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.

The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).

an ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in.

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Anything which smites without penetrating.

a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought.

A cage for confining birds.

A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.

One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.

The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.

A birdcatcher.

A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name.

A young bird.

Birdcatching or fowling.

A little bird; a nestling.

To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

A little bird; a nestling.

An aviator; airman.

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

to watch birds, especially in their natural habitats, for enjoyment or as a hobby; to bird{3}.

one who enjoys watching birds, especially to find and identify a variety of birds in their natural habitats; a birder{2}.

An airwoman; an aviatress.

Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.

An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

Same as Berretta.

See Bergander.

A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).

Birchen; as, birken groves.

A lively or mettlesome fellow.

To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.

A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.

a city in Alabama.

a pen with small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper; same as ballpoint pen.

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.

A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.

A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.

A bristle or bristles.

A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

See Berth.

the act or process of deliberately limiting the number of one's children born, especially by preventing conception.

Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.

The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.

to give birth to.

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

Of mean extraction.

Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.

The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.

The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.

the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; usually expressed as birthes per 1000 population per year.

Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.

An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.

A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.

Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.

Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.

Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain. A native or inhabitant of Biscay.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

a genus off Eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.

See Bice.

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.

To cut or divide into two parts.

Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.

One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.

With two partitions or septa.

In two rows or series.

Having two bristles.

Bisexual.

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

Bisexual.

p. p. of Besee.

Same as Bikh.