BINOTONOUS
BINOT'ONOUS, adjective [bis and note.] Consisting of two notes; as a binotonous cry.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BIOGRAPHER
BIOG'RAPHER, noun [See Biography.] One who writes an account of history of the life and actions of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
BIOGRAPHIC
BIOGRAPH'ICBIOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to biography, or the history of the life of a person; containing biography.
BIOGRAPHICAL
BIOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to biography, or the history of the life of a person; containing biography.
BIOGRAPHY
BIOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr.life, and to write.]The history of the life and character of a particular person.
BIOTINA
BIOTINA, noun [from Biot, a French naturalist.]A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, whose primitive form is that of an obtuse rhomboid.
BIPAROUS
BIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and pario, to bear.]Bringing forth two at a birth.
BIPARTIBLE
BIPART'IBLEBIPAR'TIENT, [Latin bis, twice, and partio, partiens, to divide.] Dividing into two parts.
BIPARTILE
BIP'ARTILE, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and partio, to divide.]That may be divided in two parts.
BIPARTITE
BIP'ARTITE, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and partitus, divided.]1. Having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party.2. In botany, divided into ...
BIPARTITION
BIPARTI'TION, noun The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts.
BIPED
BI'PED, noun [Latin bipes, of bis, twice, and pes, pedis, a foot.]An animal having two feet, as man.
BIPEDAL
BIP'EDAL, adjective Having two feet, or the length of two feet.
BIPENNATE
BIPEN'NATE, adjective [Latin bis, and penna, a wing or feather.] Having two wings.1. In botany, having pinnate leaves on each side of the petiole, as a leaf or frond.
BIPENNATIFID
BIPEN'NATIFID, adjective [Latin bis, twice, pinna, a wing or feather, and findo, to divide.]Doubly-pinnatifid; having pinnatifid leaves on each side of the petiole.
BIPETALOUS
BIPET'ALOUS, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and Gr. a leaf.]Consisting of two flower leaves; having two petals.
BIPINNATIFID
BIPIN'NATIFIDBIQUAD'RATE, noun [Latin bis, twice, and quadratus, squared.]In mathematics the fourth power, arising from the multiplication of a square number or quantity by itse...
BIQUADRATE
BIQUAD'RATE, n. [L. bis, twice, and quadratus, squared.]In mathematics the fourth power, arising from the multiplication of a square number or quantity by itself. Thus 4x4=16, w...
BIQUADRATIC
BIQUADRAT'IC, noun The same as biquadrate.BIQUADRAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the biquadratic or fourth power.Biquadratic equation, in algebra, is an equation raised to the fo...
BIQUINTILE
BIQUIN'TILE, noun [Latin bis, twice, and quintus, fifth.]An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other, by twice the fifth part of a great circle, that is 144 ...
BIRADIATE
BIRA'DIATEBIRA'DIATED, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and radiatus, set with rays.]Having two rays; as a biradiate fin.
BIRCH
BIRCH, noun burch. A genus of trees, the Betula, of which there are several species; as the white or common birch the dwarf birch the Canada birch of which there are several var...
BIRCHEN
BIRCH'EN, adjective Made of birch; consisting of birch.
BIRD
BIRD, noun burd.1. Properly, a chicken, the young of fowls, and hence a small fowl.2. In modern use, any fowl or flying animal.It is remarkable that a nation should lay aside th...
BIRD-CAGE
BIRD'-CAGE, noun [bird and cage.] A box or case with wires, small sticks, or wicker, forming open work, for keeping birds.BIRD'-CALL, noun [bird and call.] A little stick, cleft...
BIRD-CATCHER
BIRD'-CATCHER, noun [bird and catch.] One whose employment is to catch birds; a fowler.
BIRD-CATCHING
BIRD'-CATCHING, noun [bird and catch.] The art of taking birds or wild fowls, either for food, for pleasure, or for their destruction, when pernicious to the husbandman.BIRD'-CH...