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A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.

One guilty of barratry.

Tainter with, or constituting, barratry. -- Bar"ra*trous*ly, adv. Kent.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. [Obs.] Shak.

To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.

Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.

Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.

Having two perforations.

ower, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power. Biquadratic equation (Alg.), an equation of the fourth degree, or an equation in some term of which the unknown quantity is raised to the fourth power. -- Biquadratic root of a number, the square root of the square root of that number. Thus the square root of 81 is…

ving a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.

salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.

Blattering.

A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]