BIESTINGS — BIPARTITION NWAD BIESTINGS.1

BIESTINGS, n. plu. The first milk given by a cow after calving. NWAD BIESTINGS.1

BIFARIOUS, a. [L. bifarius; bis and fero, or Teutonic, faran, to go.] NWAD BIFARIOUS.1

Two-fold. In botany, pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch. NWAD BIFARIOUS.2

BIFARIOUSLY, adv. In a bifarious manner. A stem or branch is bifariously hairy, when the hairs between any two joints come out on the front and back, and in the two adjoining internodes, on the right and left side. NWAD BIFARIOUSLY.1

BIFEROUS, a. [L. bifer, biferus; of bis, twice, and fero, to bear.] NWAD BIFEROUS.1

Bearing fruit twice a year, as plants do in warm climates. NWAD BIFEROUS.2

BIFID, BIFIDATE, a. [L. bifidus, bifidatus, of bis, twice, and findo, fidi, to split or cleave. See Divide and Wide.] NWAD BIFID.1

In botany, two-cleft; divided; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins. NWAD BIFID.2

BIFLOROUS, a. [L. bis, twice, and floreo.] Bearing two flowers. NWAD BIFLOROUS.1

BIFOLD, a. [L. bis, twice, and fold.] Two-fold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc. NWAD BIFOLD.1

BIFORM, a. [L. biformis, of bis, twice, and forma, form.] NWAD BIFORM.1

Having two forms, bodies or shapes. NWAD BIFORM.2

BIFORMED, a. Compounded of two forms. NWAD BIFORMED.1

BIFORMITY, n. A double form. NWAD BIFORMITY.1

BIFURCATE, BIFURCATED, a. [L. bifurcus, of bis, twice, and furca, a fork.] NWAD BIFURCATE.1

Forked; divided into two branches. NWAD BIFURCATE.2

BIFURCATION, n. A forking, or division into two branches. NWAD BIFURCATION.1

BIG, a. NWAD BIG.1

1. Bulky; protuberant; pregnant, applied to females. Big, in the sense of pregnant, is followed by with; as, big with child. The use of of, big of child, is not good English. NWAD BIG.2

2. Great; large; in a more general sense; applied to any body or object. NWAD BIG.3

3. Full; fraught, and about to have vent, or be brought forth. NWAD BIG.4

The important day, big with the fate of Rome. NWAD BIG.5

4. Distended; full, as with grief or passion. NWAD BIG.6

Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep. NWAD BIG.7

5. Swelled; tumid; inflated, as with pride; hence, haughty in air or mien, or indicating haughtiness; proud; as big looks; big words; to look big. NWAD BIG.8

6. Great in spirit; lofty; brave. NWAD BIG.9

Have not I a heart as big as thine? NWAD BIG.10

BIG, n. A kind of barley. NWAD BIG.11

BIGAM, n. A bigamist. [Not used.] NWAD BIGAM.1

BIGAMIST, n. [See Bigamy.] One who has committed bigamy, or had two wives at one. NWAD BIGAMIST.1

BIGAMY, n. [L. bis, twice, and Gr. to marry, marriage.] NWAD BIGAMY.1

The crime of having two wives at once. But the term is ordinarily used as synonymous with Polygamy, and may be more justly defined, the crime of having a plurality of wives. NWAD BIGAMY.2

In the canon law, bigamy was the marrying a second wife after the death of the first, or once marrying a widow. This disqualified a man for orders, and holding ecclesiastical offices. NWAD BIGAMY.3

BIGBELLIED, a. Having a great belly; advanced in pregnancy. NWAD BIGBELLIED.1

BIGBONED, a. Having large bones. NWAD BIGBONED.1

BIGCORNED, a. Having large grains. NWAD BIGCORNED.1

BIGEMINATE, a. [L. bis, twice, and geminus, double.] NWAD BIGEMINATE.1

Twin-forked; used of a decompound leaf having a forked petiole, with several leaflets, at the end of each division. NWAD BIGEMINATE.2

BIGGEL, n. A quadruped of the East Indies, somewhat like a rane or rein-deer, but its head resembles that of a horse. It has two horns, cloven feet and a mane like an ass. NWAD BIGGEL.1

BIGGIN, n. NWAD BIGGIN.1

1. A child’s cap, or something worn about the head. NWAD BIGGIN.2

2. A building. NWAD BIGGIN.3

BIGHT, n. NWAD BIGHT.1

1. A bend, or small bay between two points of land. NWAD BIGHT.2

2. The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the end; that is, a round, bend or coil anywhere except at the ends. NWAD BIGHT.3

3. The inward bent of a horse’s chambrel, and the bend of the fore knees. NWAD BIGHT.4

BIGLY, adv. [from big.] In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily. NWAD BIGLY.1

BIGNAMED, a. Having a great or famous name. NWAD BIGNAMED.1

BIGNESS, n. Bulk; size; largeness; dimensions. It is used of any object, animate or inanimate, and with or without comparison. Thus we speak of the bigness of a tree, of a rock, of a house, without instituting a comparison with other objects of the kind. Yet in this case there is always some reference in the mind to known measure. We also say, one thing is as big as another; in which case we give the idea of unknown size, by a known object. Big and bigness always imply expansion, more or less, in breadth, and are thus distinguished from tall and tallness. NWAD BIGNESS.1

BIGOT, n. NWAD BIGOT.1

1. A person who is obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, practice or ritual. The word is sometimes used in an enlarged sense, for a person who is illiberally attached to any opinion, or system of belief; as a bigot to the Mohammedan religion; a bigot to a form of government. NWAD BIGOT.2

2. A venetian liquid measure containing the fourth part of the amphor, or half the boot. NWAD BIGOT.3

BIGOT, BIGOTED, a. Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion, practice or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal towards the opinions of others. NWAD BIGOT.4

BIGOTEDLY, adv. In the manner of a bigot; pertinaciously. NWAD BIGOTEDLY.1

BIGOTRY, n. Obstinate or blind attachment to a particular creed, or to certain tenets; unreasonable zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect or opinion; excessive prejudice. NWAD BIGOTRY.1

1. The practice or tenet of a bigot. NWAD BIGOTRY.2

BIGSOUNDING, a. Having a pompous sound. NWAD BIGSOUNDING.1

BIGSWOLN, a. [big and swoln. See Swell.] NWAD BIGSWOLN.1

Swelled to a large size; turgid; greatly swelled; ready to burst. NWAD BIGSWOLN.2

BIGUDDERED, a. [big and udder.] NWAD BIGUDDERED.1

Having large udders, or udders swelled with milk. NWAD BIGUDDERED.2

BIHYDROGURET, n. A double hydroguret, or with two atoms of hydrogen. NWAD BIHYDROGURET.1

BIJUGOUS, a. [L. bis, twice, and jugum, a yoke, a pair.] NWAD BIJUGOUS.1

Having two pairs of leaflets; used of pinnated leaves. NWAD BIJUGOUS.2

BILABIATE, a. [L. bis, twice, and labium, a lip.] NWAD BILABIATE.1

Having two lips, as the corols of flowers. NWAD BILABIATE.2

BILAMELLATE, a. [L. bis, twice, and lamella, a plate.] NWAD BILAMELLATE.1

Having the form of a flatted sphere, longitudinally bifid; used of the stigma of plants. NWAD BILAMELLATE.2

BILANDER, n. A small merchant vessel with two masts, distinguished from other vessels of two masts, by the form of the main-sail, which is bent to the whole length of a yard, hanging fore and aft, and inclined to the horizon in an angle of about 45 degrees; the foremost lower corner, called the tack, being secured to a ring-bolt in the deck, and the aftermost or sheet, to the tafferel. Few vessels are now rigged in this manner. NWAD BILANDER.1

The bilander is a kind of hoy, manageable by four or five men and used chiefly in the canals of the Low Countries. NWAD BILANDER.2

BILATERAL, a. [L. bis and latus, side.] Having two sides. NWAD BILATERAL.1

BILBERRY, n. The name of a shrub and its fruit; a species of Vaccinium or whortle-berry. The name with us is given to the taller shrub and its fruit which is of a bluish color. NWAD BILBERRY.1

BILBO, n. [from Bilboa, in Spain.] NWAD BILBO.1

A rapier; a sword; so named, it is said, from Bilboa in Spain, where the best are made. NWAD BILBO.2

BILBOES, n. plu. On board of ships, long bars or bolts of iron with shackles sliding on them, and a lock at the end, used to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders. Hence the punishment of offenders in this manner is called by the same name. NWAD BILBOES.1

BILD, v.t. pret. bilded, bilt; pp. id. NWAD BILD.1

To construct; to erect; to set up and finish; as, to bild a house or ship; to bild a wall. [This is the true orthography; the common spelling is incorrect. See Build.] NWAD BILD.2

BILDSTEIN, n. Agalmatolite, or figure-stone. A massive mineral, with sometimes a slaty structure; of a color gray, brown, flesh red, sometimes spotted, or with blue veins. It fuses into a transparent glass. Brongniart calls it steatite pagodite, from its coming from China in grotesque figures. NWAD BILDSTEIN.1

This mineral resembles steatite in its physical characters, but differs from it essentially in its composition. It is soft, easily cut with a knife, and reducible to a fine unctuous powder. NWAD BILDSTEIN.2

BILE, n. [L. bilis.] A yellow bitter liquor, separated from the blood in the liver, collected in the pori biliarii and gall bladder, and thence discharged by the common duct into the duodenum. NWAD BILE.1

BILE, n. An inflamed tumor. [See Boil, the correct orthography.] NWAD BILE.2

BILEDUCT, n. [bile and L. ductus, a conduit.] NWAD BILEDUCT.1

A vessel or canal to convey bile. NWAD BILEDUCT.2

BILESTONE, n. [bile and stone.] A concretion of viscid. bile. NWAD BILESTONE.1

BILGE, n. [A different orthography of bulge, and belly, a protuberance.] NWAD BILGE.1

1. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle. NWAD BILGE.2

2. The breadth of a ship’s bottom, or that part of her floor which approaches to a horizontal direction, on which she would rest, if aground. Hence, when this part of a ship is fractured, she is said to be bilged. NWAD BILGE.3

BILGE, v.i. To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge. The term is used also when a ship has some of her timbers struck off by a rock or an anchor, and springs a leak. NWAD BILGE.4

BILGED, pp. or a. Having a fracture in the bilge. This participle is often used, as if the verb were transitive; and perhaps it is sometimes so used. NWAD BILGED.1

BILGE-PUMP, n. A burr-pump; a pump to draw the bilge-water from a ship. NWAD BILGE-PUMP.1

BILGE-WATER, n. Water which enters a ship, and lies upon her bilge or bottom. NWAD BILGE-WATER.1

BILIARY, n. Water which enters a ship, and lies upon her bilge or bottom. NWAD BILIARY.1

BILIARY, a. [from L. bilis.] Belonging to the bile; conveying the bile; as a biliary duct. NWAD BILIARY.2

BILINGSGATE, n. [from a place of this name in London frequented by low people who use foul language.] NWAD BILINGSGATE.1

Foul language; ribaldry. NWAD BILINGSGATE.2

BILINGUOUS, a. [L. bis, and lingua, tongue.] NWAD BILINGUOUS.1

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. NWAD BILINGUOUS.2

BILIOUS, a. [L. biliosus, from bilis, the bile.] NWAD BILIOUS.1

Pertaining to bile; consisting or partaking of bile; caused by a redundancy, or bad state of the bile; as a bilious fever. NWAD BILIOUS.2

BILITERAL, a. [L. bis, twice, and litera, letter.] NWAD BILITERAL.1

Consisting of two letters; as a biliteral root in language. NWAD BILITERAL.2

BILK, v.t. To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by non-fulfillment of engagement; as, to bilk a creditor. NWAD BILK.1

BILKED, pp. Disappointed; deceived; defrauded. NWAD BILKED.1

BILKING, ppr. Frustrating; defrauding. NWAD BILKING.1

BILL, n. NWAD BILL.1

1. The beak of a fowl. NWAD BILL.2

2. An instrument used by plumbers, basket makers and gardeners, made in the form of a crescent, and fitted with a handle. When short, it is called a hand-bill; when long, a hedge-bill. It is used for pruning trees, etc. NWAD BILL.3

BILL, n. NWAD BILL.4

A pick-ax, or mattock; a battle-ax; an ax or hatchet with a crooked point. NWAD BILL.5

BILL, n. NWAD BILL.6

1. In law, a declaration in writing, expressing some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law. It contains the fact complained of, the damage sustained, and a petition or process against the defendant for redress. It is used both in civil and criminal cases. NWAD BILL.7

In Scots law, every summary application in writing, by way of petition to the court of session, is called a bill. NWAD BILL.8

2. In law and in commerce, in England, an obligation or security given for money under the hand, and sometimes the seal of the debtor, without a condition or forfeiture for non-payment. In the latter circumstance, it differs from a bond. In the United States, this species of security is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note. NWAD BILL.9

3. A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature, but not enacted. In some cases, statutes are called bills; but usually they are qualified by some description, as a bill of attainder. NWAD BILL.10

4. A paper written or printed, and posted in some public place, advertising the proposed sale of goods, or particular things; an advertisement posted. NWAD BILL.11

5. An account of goods sold or delivered, services rendered or work done, with the price or value annexed to each article. NWAD BILL.12

6. Any written paper, containing a statement of particulars; as a bill of charges or expenditures; a physician’s bill of prescriptions; a bill of fare or provisions, etc. NWAD BILL.13

7. A bill of exchange is an order drawn on a person, in a distant place, requesting or directing him to pay money to some person assigned by the drawer, or to his order, in consideration of the same sum received by the drawer. Bills of exchange are either foreign or inland; foreign, when drawn by a person in one country upon one residing in another; inland, when both the drawer and drawee reside in the same country. The person who draws the bill is called the drawer; the person on whom the request or demand is made, is called the drawee; and the person to whom the money is directed to be paid, is called the payee. NWAD BILL.14

8. A bill of entry is a written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation. NWAD BILL.15

9. A bill of lading is a written account of goods shipped by any person, on board of a vessel, signed by the master of the vessel, who acknowledges the receipt of the goods, and promises to deliver them safe at the place directed, dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to sign two, three or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. NWAD BILL.16

10. A bill of parcels is an account given by the seller to the buyer, of the several articles purchased, with the price of each. NWAD BILL.17

11. A bill of sale is when a person borrows money and delivers goods to the lender as security, and at the same time, gives him a bill, empowering him to sell the goods, if the money is not repaid at the appointed time with interest. NWAD BILL.18

In the United States, a bill of sale is a writing given by the seller of personal property to the purchaser, answering to a deed of real estate, but without seal. NWAD BILL.19

12. A bill of mortality is an account of the number of deaths in a place, in a given time. In these bills it is not unusual to insert registers of births and christenings, as in London. NWAD BILL.20

13. Bank-bill. [See Bank.] NWAD BILL.21

14. A bill of rights is a summary of rights and privileges, claimed by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the lords and commons of England to the prince and princess of Orange in 1688. In America, a bill or declaration or rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several states. NWAD BILL.22

15. A bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, was a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. NWAD BILL.23

16. [See Indictment.] NWAD BILL.24

BILL, v.i. [from bill, a beak.] To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. NWAD BILL.25

BILL, v.t. [from bill, a writing.] To advertise by a bill or public notice; a cant word. NWAD BILL.26

BILLARD, n. A bastard or imperfect capon; also a fish of the cod kind. NWAD BILLARD.1

BILLET, n. [dim. of bill;] NWAD BILLET.1

A small paper or note in writing, used for various purposes; sometimes it is a short letter, addressed to some person; sometimes a ticket directing soldiers at what house to lodge. NWAD BILLET.2

In heraldry, billet is a bearing in the form of a long square. NWAD BILLET.3

BILLET-DOUX, bil’le-doo. A love billet. NWAD BILLET-DOUX.1

BILLET, n. A small stick of wood. NWAD BILLET.1

BILLET, v.t. [from billet, a ticket.] To direct a soldier by a ticket or note where to lodge; hence, to quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. NWAD BILLET.2

BILLETING, ppr. Quartering, as soldiers in private houses. NWAD BILLETING.1

BILLIARD, a. bil’yard. Pertaining to the game of billiards. NWAD BILLIARD.1

BILLIARDS, n. plu. bil’yards. NWAD BILLIARDS.1

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 pockets at the sides and corners of the tables, by impelling one ball against another, with maces, or cues, according to certain rules of the game. NWAD BILLIARDS.2

BILLION, n. bil’yun. [bis and million.] NWAD BILLION.1

A million of millions; as many millions as there are units in a million. NWAD BILLION.2

BILLOW, n. 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 large. NWAD BILLOW.1

BILLOW, v.i. To swell; to rise and roll in large waves, or surges. NWAD BILLOW.2

BILLOW-BEATEN, a. Tossed by billows. NWAD BILLOW-BEATEN.1

BILLOWING, ppr. Swelled into a large waves or surges. NWAD BILLOWING.1

BILLOWY, a. Swelling, or swelled into large waves; wavy; full of billows, or surges. NWAD BILLOWY.1

BILOBED, BILOBATE, a. [L. bis, twice. See Lobe.] Divided into two lobes; as a bilobate leaf. NWAD BILOBED.1

BILOCULAR, a. [L. bis, twice, and loculus, from locus, a place.] NWAD BILOCULAR.1

Divided into two cells, or containing two cells internally; as a bilocular pericarp. NWAD BILOCULAR.2

BILVA, n. The Hindu name of a plant, the Crataeva Marmelos of Linne. NWAD BILVA.1

BIMANOUS, a. [bis and manus.] Having two hands. Man is bimanous. NWAD BIMANOUS.1

BIMBOW, [See Kimbo.] NWAD BIMBOW.1

BIMEDIAL, a. [L. 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 compounded, the whole line A C will be irrational, and is called a first bimedial line. NWAD BIMEDIAL.1

1. Belonging to a quantity arising from a particular combination of two other quantities. NWAD BIMEDIAL.2

BIN, n. A wooden box or chest used as a repository of corn or other commodities. NWAD BIN.1

BINNACLE, n. [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 shutters; the two sides contain each a compass, and the middle division, a lamp or candle. NWAD BINNACLE.1

BINARY, a. [L. binus, two and two.] NWAD BINARY.1

Binary arithmetic, the invention of Leibnitz, is that in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cypher multiplying every thing by two, as in common arithmetic by 10. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four; 101 is five; 110 is six; 111, is seven; 1000 is eight; 1001 is nine; 1010 is ten. It is said this species of arithmetic has been used by the Chinese for 4000 years, being left in enigma by Fohi. NWAD BINARY.2

Binary measure, in music, is that used in common time, in which the time of rising in beating, is equal to the time of falling. NWAD BINARY.3

Binary number is that which is composed of two units. NWAD BINARY.4

BINARY, n. The constitution of two. NWAD BINARY.5

BINATE, a. [L. 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 digitate leaf. NWAD BINATE.1

BIND, v.t. NWAD BIND.1

1. To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature. NWAD BIND.2

2. To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound. NWAD BIND.3

3. To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot. NWAD BIND.4

4. To restrain in any manner. NWAD BIND.5

He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job 28:11. NWAD BIND.6

5. To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage. NWAD BIND.7

If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond. Numbers 30:2. NWAD BIND.8

We are bound by the laws of kindness, of nature, of a state, etc. NWAD BIND.9

6. To confirm or ratify. NWAD BIND.10

Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven. Matthew 16:19. NWAD BIND.11

7. To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity. NWAD BIND.12

Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years. Luke 13:16. NWAD BIND.13

8. To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion. NWAD BIND.14

I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem. Acts 20:22. NWAD BIND.15

9. To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels. NWAD BIND.16

10. To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet. NWAD BIND.17

11. To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book. NWAD BIND.18

12. To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire. NWAD BIND.19

13. To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant. NWAD BIND.20

14. To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth. NWAD BIND.21

To bind to is to contract; as, to bind one’s self to a wife. NWAD BIND.22

To bind over is to oblige by bond to appear at a court. NWAD BIND.23

BIND, v.i. To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat. NWAD BIND.24

1. To grow or become costive. NWAD BIND.25

2. To be obligatory. NWAD BIND.26

BIND, n. A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it. NWAD BIND.27

1. A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole. NWAD BIND.28

2. Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron. NWAD BIND.29

BINDER, n. A person who binds; one whose occupation is to bind books; also, one who binds sheaves. NWAD BINDER.1

1. Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band. NWAD BINDER.2

BINDERY, n. A place where books are bound. NWAD BINDERY.1

BINDING, ppr. Fastening with a band; confining; restraining; covering or wrapping; obliging by a promise or other moral tie; making costive; contracting; making hard or stiff. NWAD BINDING.1

BINDING, a. That obliges; obligatory; as the binding force of a moral duty or of a command. NWAD BINDING.2

BINDING, n. The act of fastening with a band or obliging; a bandage; the cover of a book, with the sewing and accompanying work; any thing that binds; something that secures the edge of cloth. NWAD BINDING.3

1. In the art of defense, a method of securing or crossing the adversary’s sword with a pressure, accompanied with a spring of the wrist. NWAD BINDING.4

Binding-joists, in architecture, are the joists of a floor into which the trimmers of staircases, or well holes of the stairs and chimney ways, are framed. NWAD BINDING.5

BIND-WEED, n. A genus of plants, called Convolvulus, comprehending many species, as the white, the blue, the Syrian bind-weed, etc. The black briony or Tamus is called black bind-weed; and the Smilax is called rough bind-weed. NWAD BIND-WEED.1

BING, n. In alum works, a heap of alum thrown together in order to drain. NWAD BING.1

BINOCLE, n. [binus, double, and oculus, and eye.] NWAD BINOCLE.1

A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once. NWAD BINOCLE.2

BINOCULAR, a. [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 binocular telescope. NWAD BINOCULAR.1

BINOMIAL, a. [L. bis, twice, and nomen, name.] NWAD BINOMIAL.1

In algebra, a root consisting of two members connected by the sign plus or minus; as a+b, or 7-3. NWAD BINOMIAL.2

BINOMINOUS, a. [L. bis, twice, and nomen, name.] NWAD BINOMINOUS.1

Having two names. NWAD BINOMINOUS.2

BINOTONOUS, a. [bis and note.] Consisting of two notes; as a binotonous cry. NWAD BINOTONOUS.1

BIOGRAPHER, n. [See Biography.] One who writes an account of history of the life and actions of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch. NWAD BIOGRAPHER.1

BIOGRAPHIC, BIOGRAPHICAL, a. Pertaining to biography, or the history of the life of a person; containing biography. NWAD BIOGRAPHIC.1

BIOGRAPHY, n. [Gr. life, and to write.] NWAD BIOGRAPHY.1

The history of the life and character of a particular person. NWAD BIOGRAPHY.2

BIOTINA, n. [from Biot, a French naturalist.] NWAD BIOTINA.1

A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, whose primitive form is that of an obtuse rhomboid. NWAD BIOTINA.2

BIPAROUS, a. [L. bis, twice, and pario, to bear.] NWAD BIPAROUS.1

Bringing forth two at a birth. NWAD BIPAROUS.2

BIPARTIBLE, BIPARTILE, a. [L. bis, twice, and partio, to divide.] NWAD BIPARTIBLE.1

That may be divided in two parts. NWAD BIPARTIBLE.2

BIPARTIENT, [L. bis, twice, and partio, partiens, to divide.] Dividing into two parts. NWAD BIPARTIENT.1

BIPARTITE, a. [L. bis, twice, and partitus, divided.] NWAD BIPARTITE.1

1. Having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party. NWAD BIPARTITE.2

2. In botany, divided into two parts to the base, as a leaf. NWAD BIPARTITE.3

BIPARTITION, n. The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts. NWAD BIPARTITION.1