Billowy
Bil″low‐y (�), a. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.And whitening down the many-tinctured stream,D...
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Billposter
{ Bill″post′er (�), Bill″stick″er (�), } n. One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.
Billy
Bil″ly (�), n. 1. A club; esp., a policeman's club.2. (Wool Manuf.) A slubbing or roving machine.
Billy goat
Bil″ly goat′ (�). A male goat.
Billyboy
Bil″ly‐boy′ (�), n. A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.
Billycock
{ Bil″ly‐cock (?), n., orBil″ly‐cock hat′ (?) }. [Perh. from bully + cock; that is, cocked like the hats of the bullies.] A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. “The undign...
Bilobate
Bi‐lo″bate (bī̍‐lō″bā̍t or bī″lō̍‐bā̍t), a. [Pref. bi- + lobate.] Divided into two lobes or segments.
Bilobed
Bi″lobed (bī″lōbd), a. [Pref. bi- + lobe.] Bilobate.
Bilocation
Bi′lo‐ca″tion (�), n. [Pref. bi- + location.] Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; — a miraculous power attributed to some of the sain...
Bilocular
Bi‐loc″u‐lar (�), a. [Pref. bi- + locular: cf. F. biloculaire.] Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.
Bilsted
Bil″sted (�), n.(Bot.) See Sweet gum.
Biltong
‖Bil″tong (�), n. Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. H. R. Haggard.
Bimaculate
Bi‐mac″u‐late (�), a. [Pref. bi- + maculate, a.] Having, or marked with, two spots.
Bimana
‖Bim″a‐na (�), n. pl. [NL. See Bimanous.] (Zoöl.) Animals having two hands; — a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.
Bimanous
Bim″a‐nous (�), a. [L. bis twice + manus hand.] (Zoöl.) Having two hands; two-handed.
Bimarginate
Bi‐mar″gin‐ate (�), a. [Pref. bi- + marginate.] Having a double margin, as certain shells.
Bimastism
Bi‐mas″tism (�), n. [Pref. bi- + Gr. � breast.] (Anat.) The condition of having two mammæ or teats.
Bimedial
Bi‐me″di‐al (�), a. [Pref. bi- + medial.] (Geom.) Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).
Bimembral
Bi‐mem″bral (�), a. [L. bis twice + membrum member.] (Gram.) Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence. J. W. Gibbs.
Bimensal
Bi‐men″sal (�), a. [Pref. bi- + mensal.] See Bimonthly, a.
Bimestrial
Bi‐mes″tri‐al (�), a. [L. bimestris; bis twice + mensis month.] Continuing two months.
Bimetallic
Bi′me‐tal″lic (�), a. [Pref. bi- + metallic: cf. F. bimétallique.] Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
Bimetallic (2)
Bi″me‐tal″lic, a. Composed of two different metals; formed of two parts, each of a different metal; as, bimetallic wire; bimetallic thermometer, etc.
Bimetallism
Bi‐met″al‐lism (�), n. [F. bimétalisme.] The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; — in opposition to monomet...
Bimetallist
Bi‐met″al‐list (�), n. An advocate of bimetallism.
Bimolecular
Bi″mo‐lec″u‐lar (?), a. [Pref. bi- + molecular.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).
Bimonthly
Bi‐month″ly (�), a. [Pref. bi- + monthly.] Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. — n. A bimonthly publication.