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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.
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.
3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth.
To commend; to commit.
Possessing the property of touching at two points. A line that touches a curve in two points.
A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
to complain in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe.
an informal intensifier; as, we had a bitching good time.
marked by or arising from malice.
The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.
Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.
Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.
In a biting manner.
Not having a bit or bridle.
A small scrubby tree (Balanites /gyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.
The second largest city of the Republic of Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), population 84,002 (2000). It is also known as city of consuls. The city of Bitola is situated in Pelagonian flat, at the foot of Baba mountain. It was established by Slavs and it was given the slavic name Obitel - Bitola. It is assumed that the city got this name because of the many monasteries being built there. Later, during the rule of Turks, the Turks called it Monastir and it was a significant administrative and military center with 12 consulates. It managed to preserve the primacy of a leading city, especially in the XIX century when it rapidly grew to about 40.000 inhabitants. Bitola developed trading relations with Vienna, Paris, Leipzig, London and Thessalonika to the south. In that time Bitola exceeded Skopje, both in wealth and beauty. During World War II it was destroyed by heavy bombing. Bitola started to grow and develop economically only after liberation in 1945. See also Macedonia{2}.
A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.
A binnacle.
Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
To make bitter.
the butterbump or bittern.
any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except in the Antarctic.
Full of bitterness.
A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.
Somewhat bitter.
A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).
In a bitter manner.
The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Sp/t'lum.
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
Anything which is bittersweet.
A species of Ambrosia (Ambrosia artemisi/folia); Roman worm wood.
A West Indian tree (Picr/na excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.
The bittern.
A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
Bitumen.
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