Bi`hy*drog"u*ret (&?;), n. [Pref. bi- + hydroguret.] (Chem.) A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance. [Obs.]
||Bi*jou" (&?;), n.; pl. Bijoux (&?;). [F.; of uncertain origin.] A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.
Bi*jou"try (&?;), n. [F. bijouterie. See Bijou.] Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.
Bij"u*gate (&?;), a. [L. bis twice + jugatus, p. p. of jugare to join.] (Bot.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets.
Bij"u*gous (&?;), a. [L. bijugus yoked two together; bis twice + jugum yoke, pair.] (Bot.) Bijugate.
Bike (&?;), n. [Ethymol. unknown.] A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
||Bikh (&?;), n. [Hind., fr. Skr. visha poison.] (Bot.) The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.
Bi*la"bi*ate (&?;), a. [Pref. bi- + labiate.] (Bot.) Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.
Bi`la*cin"i*ate (&?;), a. [Pref. bi- + laciniate.] Doubly fringed.
||Bi*la"lo (&?;), n. A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.
{ Bi*lam"el*late (&?;), Bi*lam"el*la`ted (&?;), } a. [Pref. bi- + lamellate.] (Bot.) Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.
{ Bi*lam"i*nar (&?;), Bi*lam"i*nate (&?;), } a. [Pref. bi- + laminar, laminate.] Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.
Bi"land (&?;), n. A byland. [Obs.] Holland.
Bil"an*der (&?;), n. [D. bijlander; bij by + land land, country.] (Naut.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep
Along the coast, and land in view to keep?
Dryden.
Bi*lat"er*al (&?;), a. [Pref. bi- + lateral: cf. F. bilatéral.] 1. Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.
Bi*lat`er*al"i*ty (&?;), n. State of being bilateral.
Bil"ber*ry (&?;), n.; pl. Bilberries (&?;). [Cf. Dan. böllebær bilberry, where bölle is perh. akin to E. ball.] 1. (Bot.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
Shak.
2. (Bot.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. cæspitosum and V. uliginosum.
Bil"bo (&?;), n.; pl. Bilboes (&?;). 1. A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain. Shak.
2. pl. A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.
Methought I lay
Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
Shak.
||Bil"bo*quet (&?;), n. [F.] The toy called cup and ball.
Bil"cock (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The European water rail.
||Bild"stein (&?;), n. [G., fr. bild image, likeness + stein stone.] Same as Agalmatolite.
Bile (&?;), n. [L. bilis: cf. F. bile.] 1. (Physiol.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
2. Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.
The ancients considered the bile to be the "humor" which caused irascibility.
Bile, n. [OE. byle, bule, bele, AS. b&?;le, b&?;l; skin to D. buil, G. beule, and Goth. ufbauljan to puff up. Cf. Boil a tumor, Bulge.] A boil. [Obs. or Archaic]
Bi*lec"tion (&?;), n. (Arch.) That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
Bile"stone` (&?;), n. [Bile + stone.] A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin.
Bilge (&?;), n. [A different orthography of bulge, of same origin as belly. Cf. Belly, Bulge.] 1. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
2. (Naut.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.