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Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. "He's too big to go in there." Shak.

Having two margins toothed like a comb.

A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.

ion of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

Utterly confounded or discomfited. Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. Milton.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey.

l attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16.

tina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

Gray; bluish gray. [Obs.] Our bloncket liveries been all too sad. Spenser.

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.

or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay.

A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up. He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. Dryden.

A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson.

Veal too immature to be suitable for food.

A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking

Vehement; excessive. [R.] The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Woodward.

In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent. Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice. Shak.