Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BIBLER

BIB'LER, noun [See Bib.] A tipler; a great drinker.

1379

BIBLICAL

BIB'LICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Bible, or to the sacred writings; as biblical criticism.

1380

BIBLIOGRAPHER

BIBLIOG'RAPHER, noun [Gr. a book.] One who composes or compiles the history of books; one skilled in literary history; a transcriber.

1381

BIBLIOGRAPHIC

BIBLIOGRAPH'ICBIBLIOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the history of books.

1382

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

BIBLIOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the history of books.

1383

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOG'RAPHY, noun A history or description of books; the perusal of books, and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, and other...

1384

BIBLIOLITE

BIB'LIOLITE, noun [Gr. a book, and a stone; called also phytobiblia and lithobiblia.]Bookstone; a species of shistous stones, mostly calcarious, which present, between their lam...

1385

BIBLIOMANCY

BIBLIOM'ANCY, noun [Gr.a book, and divination.]A kind of divination, performed by means of the bible; consisting in selecting passages of scripture at hazard, and drawing from t...

1386

BIBLIOMANIA

BIBLIOMA'NIA, noun [Gr.book, and madness.]Book-madness; a rage for possessing rare and curious books.

1387

BIBLIOMANIAC

BIBLIOMA'NIAC, noun One who has a rage for books.

1388

BIBLIOPOLIST

BIBLIOP'OLIST, noun [Gr. book, and to sell.] A Bookseller.

1389

BIBLIOTHECAL

BIBLIOTH'ECAL, adjective [Latin bibliotheca, a library.]Belonging to a library.

1390

BIBLIOTHECARY

BIBLIOTH'ECARY, noun A librarian.

1391

BIBLIOTHEKE

BIBLIOTHE'KE, noun A library.

1392

BIBLIST

BIB'LIST, noun [from bible.] With the Romanists, one who makes the scriptures the sole rule of faith.1. One who is conversant with the bible.

1393

BIBRACTEATE

BIBRAC'TEATE, adjective Double bracteate.

1394

BIBULOUS

BIB'ULOUS, adjective [Latin bibulus, from bibo, to drink.]Spungy; that has the quality of imbibing fluids or moisture.

1395

BICAPSULAR

BICAP'SULAR, adjective [Latin bis, double, and capsula, a little chest, from capsa, a chest. See Capsular.]In botany, having two capsules containing seeds, to each flower; as a ...

1396

BICARBONATE

BIC'ARBONATE, noun Supercarbonate; a carbonate containing two primes of carbonic acid.

1397

BICAUDA

BICAU'DA, noun A fish of the sword-fish kind, about five feet in length; its back and sides of a brown color, and its belly white.

1398

BICE

BICE or BISE, noun Among painters, a blue color prepared from the lapis armenus, Armenican stone.BICE is smalt reduced to a fine power by levigation.

1399

BICIPITAL

BICIP'ITALBICIP'ITOUS, adjective [Latin biceps, of bis, twice, and caput, head.]Having two heads. Applied to the muscles, it signifies having two heads or origins; and any such ...

1400

BICKER

BICK'ER, verb intransitive1. To skirmish; to fight off and on; that is, to make repeated attacks. [But in this sense I believe rarely used.]2. To quarrel; to contend in words; t...

1401

BICKERER

BICK'ERER, noun One who bickers, or engages in a petty quarrel.

1402

BICKERING

BICK'ERING, participle present tense Quarreling; contending; quivering.

1403

BICKERMENT

BICK'ERMENT, noun Contention. [Not used.]

1404

BICKERN

BICK'ERN, noun An iron ending in a beak or point.