BPage 159
- English Word Bitterwort Definition The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
- English Word Bitting Definition of Bit
- English Word Bittock Definition A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.
- English Word Bittor Bittour Definition The bittern.
- English Word Bitts Definition 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.
- English Word Bitume Definition Bitumen.
- English Word Bitumed Definition Smeared with bitumen.
- English Word Bitumen Definition 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.
- English Word Bitumen Definition By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
- English Word Bituminate Definition To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
- English Word Bituminated Definition of Bituminate
- English Word Bituminating Definition of Bituminate
- English Word Bituminiferous Definition Producing bitumen.
- English Word Bituminization Definition The process of bituminizing.
- English Word Bituminize Definition To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
- English Word Bituminized Definition of Bituminize
- English Word Bituminizing Definition of Bituminize
- English Word Bituminous Definition Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.
- English Word Biuret Definition A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
- English Word Bivalency Definition The quality of being bivalent.
- English Word Bivalent Definition Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.
- English Word Bivalve Definition A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
- English Word Bivalve Definition A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
- English Word Bivalve Definition Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
- English Word Bivalved Definition Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
- English Word Bivalvous Definition Bivalvular.
- English Word Bivalvular Definition Having two valves.
- English Word Bivaulted Definition Having two vaults or arches.
- English Word Bivector Definition A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1 are vectors.
- English Word Biventral Definition Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.