BPage 139
- English Word Bike Definition A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.
- English Word Bikh Definition The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.
- English Word Bilabiate Definition Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.
- English Word Bilaciniate Definition Doubly fringed.
- English Word Bilalo Definition A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.
- English Word Bilamellate Definition Alt. of Bilamellated
- English Word Bilamellated Definition Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.
- English Word Bilaminar Definition Alt. of Bilaminate
- English Word Bilaminate Definition Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates.
- English Word Biland Definition A byland.
- English Word Bilander Definition A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
- English Word Bilateral Definition Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
- English Word Bilateral Definition Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.
- English Word Bilaterality Definition State of being bilateral.
- English Word Bilberries Definition of Bilberry
- English Word Bilberry Definition The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
- English Word Bilberry Definition Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.
- English Word Bilbo Definition A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.
- English Word Bilbo Definition A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.
- English Word Bilboes Definition of Bilbo
- English Word Bilboquet Definition The toy called cup and ball.
- English Word Bilcock Definition The European water rail.
- English Word Bildstein Definition Same as Agalmatolite.
- English Word Bile Definition A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
- English Word Bile Definition Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.
- English Word Bile Definition A boil.
- English Word Bilection Definition That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
- English Word Bilestone Definition A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.
- English Word Bilge Definition The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
- English Word Bilge Definition That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.