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.

Smeared with bitumen.

Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.

To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.

Producing bitumen.

The process of bituminizing.

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

of or pertaining to bitumen.

Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

The quality of being bivalent.

Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.

Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.

Bivalvular.

Having two valves.

Having two vaults or arches.

A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1 are vectors.

Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

Of or relating to the bivium.

Having, or leading, two ways.

One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.

To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army. To encamp for the night without tents or covering.

Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. A publication issued every two weeks.

To bewray; to reveal.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.

a dry cold north wind in southeastern France.

The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones.

the chemical symbol for berkelium.

One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.

one who blabr; a tattler; a telltale.

tending to talk excessively.

same as blabbermouthed 1.

a genus of insects consisting of giant cockroaches.

That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.

the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue.

depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie /Schindler's List/ was shot in black and white.

a comedy that treats of morbid, tragic, gloomy, or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot.

any electronic instrument or part of an instrument whose function is defined, but which is treated as a unit without consideration of the internal mechanisms; broadly, any device whose internal workings are considered as incomprehensible or mysterious by the user; as, to treat the meter as a black box and take its readings on faith.

a comedy that treats of morbid, tragic, gloomy, or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot.

the popular name for a form of the chronic lung disease pneumoconiosis which is observed among coal miners, and is caused by the inhalation of coal dust. It is thus named because of the black appearance of the lungs (pneumomelanosis) of those affected with the disease. See also the related condition anthracosis.

the illicit buying and selling of goods, in violation of price controls, rationing, tax laws, prohibition of sale, etc.

to cause to become black, such as a stage, a computer screen, or a city.

Dark-visaged; swart.

discolored by or as if by bruising; -- of skin.

Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.

Having black eyes.

Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.

a weasellike mammal (Mustela nigripes) inhabiting the western North American prairie, having dark feet, a dark-tipped tail, and a dark face on a yellowish-brown coat. It is an endangered species.

having black head hair; -- of people.

Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.

A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.

To coat or to polish with black lead (graphite).

Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.

distributed or sold illicitly.

Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.

requiring semiformal evening clothes, e. g. a black bowtie and a tuxedo or dinner jacket for men, and a formal dress for women; contrasted with white-tie, for a fully formal occasion, and with informal, and casual.

A negro or negress.

To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.

An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.

The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; Rubus villosus and Rubus Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry.

to engage in the slave trade.

A slave ship; a slaver.

The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.

A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools. In late 20th century similar boards of a green slate as well as some colored white became common; wrioting on the slate bioards may be done with chalk, but writing on the white boards is done with colored pens, such as grease pens, which leaves a trace that can be easily erased. The newer boards, usualy called chalkboards are nevertheless still sometimes referred to as blackboards.

A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale. An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee. Also called the black-cap chickadee.

A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

To grow black or dark.

One who blackens.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

See Bluefin.

A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is Globicephalus melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.

Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. A Blackfoot Indian.

Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.

The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism.

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

The scaup duck.

A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

Somewhat black.

A notorious gambler.

To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.

In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.

To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

See Blackamoor.

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting.