Billhead Bill"head` (-hĕd`)
noun A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.
Billhook Bill"hook` noun [
Bill +
hook .]
A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill ; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter .
Billiard Bil"liard adjective Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a
billiard ball."
B. Jonson.
Billiards Bil"liards noun [ French
billiard billiards, Old French
billart staff, cue form playing, from
bille log. See
Billet a stick.]
A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
Billing Bill"ing adjective & noun Caressing; kissing.
Billingsgate Bil"lings·gate` noun 1. A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language. 2. Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
Billion Bil"lion noun [ French
billion , arbitrarily formed from Latin
bis twice, in imitation of
million a million. See
Million .]
According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration .
Billman Bill"man noun ;
plural Billmen One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. "A
billman of the guard."
Savile.
Billon Bil`lon" noun [ French Confer
Billet a stick.]
An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.
Billot Bil"lot noun [ French
billot , dim. of
bille . See
Billet a stick.]
Bullion in the bar or mass.
Billow Bil"low noun [ Confer Icelandic
bylgja billow, Danish
bölge , Swedish
bölja ; akin to Middle High German
bulge billow, bag, and to English
bulge . See
Bulge .]
1. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll.
Cowper.
2. A great wave or flood of anything. Milton.
Billow Bil"low intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Billowed ;
present participle & verbal noun Billowing .]
To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The
billowing snow."
Prior.
Billowy Bil"low·y adjective 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,
Descends the billowy foam.
Thomson.
Billposter, Billsticker Bill"post`er, Bill"stick"er noun One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.
Billy Bil"ly noun 1. A club; esp., a policeman's club. 2. (Wool Manuf.) A slubbing or roving machine.
Billy goat Bil"ly goat` A male goat. [ Colloq.]
Billyboy Bil"ly·boy` noun A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [ Eng.]
Billycock Bil"ly·cock noun ,
or Bil"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 undignified
billycocks and pantaloons of the West."
B. H. Chamberlain. Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock hat .
Charles Reade.
Bilobate Bi·lo"bate (bi*lō"bat
or bī"lo*bat)
adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
lobate .]
Divided into two lobes or segments.
Bilobed Bi"lobed (bī"lōbd)
adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
lobe .]
Bilobate.
Bilocation Bi`lo·ca"tion noun [ Prefix
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 saints. Tylor.
Bilocular Bi·loc"u·lar adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
locular : confer French
biloculaire .]
Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.
Bilsted Bil"sted noun (Botany) See Sweet gum .
Biltong Bil"tong noun [ S. African.]
Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. H. R. Haggard.
Bimaculate Bi·mac"u·late adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
maculate , adjective ]
Having, or marked with, two spots.
Bimana Bim"a·na noun plural [ New Latin See
Bimanous .]
(Zoology) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia .
Bimanous Bim"a·nous adjective [ Latin
bis twice +
manus hand.]
(Zoology) Having two hands; two- handed.
Bimarginate Bi·mar"gin·ate adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
marginate .]
Having a double margin, as certain shells.
Bimastism Bi·mas"tism noun [ Prefix
bi- + Greek
... breast.]
(Anat.) The condition of having two mammæ or teats.
Bimedial Bi·me"di·al adjective [ Prefix
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 adjective [ Latin
bis twice +
membrum member.]
(Gram.) Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence. J. W. Gibbs.
Bimensal Bi·men"sal adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
mensal .]
See Bimonthly , adjective [ Obsolete or R.]
Bimestrial Bi·mes"tri·al adjective [ Latin
bimestris ;
bis twice +
mensis month.]
Continuing two months. [ R.]
Bimetallic Bi`me·tal"lic adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
metallic : confer French
bimétallique .]
Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
Bimetallic Bi"me·tal"lic adjective 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 noun [ French
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 monometallism . » The words
bimétallisme and
monométallisme are due to M. Cernuschi [ 1869].
Littré.
Bimetallist Bi·met"al·list noun An advocate of bimetallism.
Bimolecular Bi"mo·lec"u·lar adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
molecular .]
(Chemistry) Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).
Bimonthly Bi·month"ly adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
monthly .]
Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. --
noun A bimonthly publication.
Bimonthly Bi·month"ly adverb Once in two months.
Bimuscular Bi·mus"cu·lar adjective [ Prefix
bi- +
muscular .]
(Zoology) Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
Bin Bin noun [ Middle English
binne , Anglo-Saxon
binn manager, crib; perhaps akin to Dutch
ben ,
benne , basket, and to Latin
benna a kind of carriage ( a Gallic word), W.
benn ,
men , wain, cart.]
A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin ; a wine bin ; a coal bin .
Bin Bin transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Binned ;
present participle & verbal noun Binning .]
To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
Bin Bin An old form of Be and Been . [ Obsolete]
Bin- Bin- A euphonic form of the prefix Bi- .
Binal Bi"nal adjective [ See
Binary .]
Twofold; double. [ R.] "
Binal revenge, all this."
Ford.
Binarseniate Bin`ar·se"ni·ate noun [ Prefix
bin- +
arseniate .]
(Chemistry) A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base. Graham.
Binary Bi"na·ry adjective [ Latin
binarius , from
bini two by two, two at a time, from root of
bis twice; akin to English
two : confer French
binaire .]
Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things). Binary arithmetic ,
that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four, etc. Davies & Peck. --
Binary compound (Chemistry) ,
a compound of two elements, or of an element and a compound performing the function of an element, or of two compounds performing the function of elements. --
Binary logarithms ,
a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations, in which 1 is the logarithm of 2, instead of 10, as in the common logarithms, and the modulus 1.442695 instead of .43429448. --
Binary measure (Mus.) ,
measure divisible by two or four; common time. --
Binary nomenclature (Nat. Hist.) ,
nomenclature in which the names designate both genus and species. --
Binary scale (Arith.) ,
a uniform scale of notation whose ratio is two. --
Binary star (Astron.) ,
a double star whose members have a revolution round their common center of gravity. --
Binary theory (Chemistry) ,
the theory that all chemical compounds consist of two constituents of opposite and unlike qualities.
Binary Bi"na·ry noun That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality. Fotherby.
Binate Bi"nate adjective [ Latin
bini two and two.]
(Botany) Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.
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