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.

Resembling a bird.

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.

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.

The capital city of Kyrgyzstan. Population (2000) = 631,000.

To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

A bishop's seat or see.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed (/gopodium podagraria).

Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.

In the manner of a bishop.

A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.

To busy; to employ.

A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

See Bisque.

A rule steelyard.

Shame; abuse.

An adjuration or exclamation common among the Muslims.

Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507/ Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

Containing bismuth.

Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.

Containing bismuth.

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.

Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color.

The aurochs or European bison. The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but by 1900 was restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and was almost hunted to extinction.

of, relating to, or characteristic of bison.

Having two spines.

A white soup made of crayfish.

The capital city of Guinea-Bissau. Population (2000) = 200,000.

Pertaining to leap year.

Purblind; blinding.

Having two stipules.

An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.

See Bister.

A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.

colored with or as if with bister.

a small informal restaurant, especially one serving alcoholic beverages.

of or pertaining to a bistro.

Bisulcate.

A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.

A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret.

A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.

See Bisulphide.