BILLETING
BILL'ETING, participle present tense Quartering, as soldiers in private houses.
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BILLIARD
BILL'IARD, a bil'yard. Pertaining to the game of billiards.
BILLIARDS
BILL'IARDS, nounplural bil'yards.A game played on a rectangular table, covered with a green cloth, with small ivory balls, which the players aim to drive into hazardnets or pock...
BILLION
BILL'ION, noun bil'yun. [bis and million.]A million of millions; as many millions as there are units in a million.
BILLOW
BIL'LOW, noun A great wave or surge of the sea, occasioned usually by violent wind. It can hardly be applied to the waves of a river, unless in poetry, or when the river is very...
BILLOW-BEATEN
BIL'LOW-BEATEN, adjective Tossed by billows.
BILLOWING
BIL'LOWING, participle present tense Swelled into a large waves or surges.
BILLOWY
BIL'LOWY, adjective Swelling, or swelled into large waves; wavy; full of billows, or surges.
BILOBATE
BILO'BATE, adjective [Latin bis, twice. See Lobe.] Divided into two lobes; as a bilobate leaf.
BILOBED
BILO'BEDBILOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and loculus, from locus, a place.]Divided into two cells, or containing two cells internally; as a bilocular pericarp.
BILVA
BIL'VA, noun The Hindu name of a plant, the Crataeva Marmelos of Linne.
BIMANOUS
BIMA'NOUS, adjective [bis and manus.] Having two hands. Man is bimanous
BIMBOW
BIM'BOW, adjective Crooked; arched; bent; as a kimbo handle.To set the arms a kimbo, is to set the hands on the hips, with the elbows projecting outward.
BIMEDIAL
BIME'DIAL, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and medial.] In mathematics, if two medial lines, A B and B C, commensurable only in power, and containing a rational rectangle, are comp...
BINACLE
BIN'ACLE, noun [Formerly bittacle.] A wooden case or box in which the compass and lights are kept on board a ship. It is sometimes divided into three apartments, with sliding sh...
BINARY
BI'NARY, adjective [Latin binus, two and two.]Binary arithmetic, the invention of Leibnitz, is that in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cypher mult...
BINATE
BI'NATE, adjective [Latin biinus. See Binary.] Being double or in couples; growing in pairs. A binate leaf has a simple petiole, connecting two leaflets on the top; a species of...
BIND
BIND, verb transitive1. To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.2. To gird, inwrap or involve; to co...
BIND-WEED
BI'ND-WEED, noun A genus of plants, called Convolvulus, comprehending many species, as the white, the blue, theSyrian bind-weed etc. The black briony or Tamus is called black bi...
BINDER
BI'NDER, noun A person who binds; one whose occupation is to bind books; also, one who binds sheaves.1. Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band.
BINDERY
BI'NDERY, noun A place where books are bound.
BINDING
BI'NDING, participle present tense Fastening with a band; confining; restraining; covering or wrapping; obliging by a promise or other moral tie; making costive; contracting; ma...
BING
BING, noun In alum works, a heap of alum thrown together in order to drain.
BINOCLE
BIN'OCLE, noun [binus, double, and oculus, and eye.]A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once.
BINOCULAR
BINOC'ULAR, adjective [See Binocle.] Having two eyes; also, having two apertures or tubes, so joined that one may use both eyes at once in viewing a distant object; as a binocul...
BINOMIAL
BINO'MIAL, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and nomen, name.]In algebra, a root consisting of two members connected by the sign plus or minus; as a+b, or 7-3.
BINOMINOUS
BINOM'INOUS, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and nomen, name.]Having two names.