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Bilberry

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

Bilbo

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

Bilection

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

Bilestone

A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.

Bilge

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

bilges

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

Bilgy

Having the smell of bilge water.

Biliary

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

Biliation

The production and excretion of bile.

Bilifuscin

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

Bilimbing Bilimbi

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.

Bilin

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.

Bilinear

Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear co/rdinates.

Bilingual

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

Bilinguous

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages.

Bilious

Of or pertaining to the bile.

Biliprasin

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

Bilirubin

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

Biliteral

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

Biliverdin

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

Bilk

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

Bill

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Billabong

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.

Billard

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

Billboard

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.

Billbug Billbeetle

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

Billed

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

Billet

A small stick of wood, as for firewood.

Billethead

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.

Billfish

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).

Billhead

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

Billhook

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.

Billiard

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.

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.

Billingsgate

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

Billion

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.

Billman

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

Billon

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

Billot

Bullion in the bar or mass.

Billow

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

Billowy

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

Billy

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

Billyboy

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

billyoh billyo

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

Bilobate

Divided into two lobes or segments.

Bilocation

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

Bilocular

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

biloculate

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

Biltong

Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.

Bimana

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

Bimastism

The condition of having two mamm/ or teats.

Bimedial

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

Bimembral

Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence.

bimetal

a material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals.

Bimetallic

Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

Bimetallism

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.

bimli

a valuable fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus) of the East Indies now widespread in cultivation.

bimodal

having or occurring with two modes{9}; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution.

bimolecular

Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

bimonthly

Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. A bimonthly publication.

Bimuscular

Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.

Bin

To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.

Binarseniate

A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.

Binary

That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.

Binate

Double; growing in pairs or couples.

Binaural

Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

Bind

That which binds or ties.

Binder

One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

Bindery

A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

Bindheimite

An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.

Binding

The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.

Bindingness

The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.

Bindweed

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.

Bine

The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

Binervate

Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.

Bing

A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.

bingo

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!/

Binnacle

A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.

Binny

A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

Binocle

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.

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