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goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family (Monarda fistulosa).

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke.

serpent! That name best befits thee." Milton. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small. Coleridge.

A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke.

Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebræ.

Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

Flabellate on both sides.

That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]

mon 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 (C…

Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. Abbott.

telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double- barreled field glass or an opera glass.

Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.

biology which deals with the geographical distribution of animals and plants. It includes both zoögeography and phytogeography. -- Bi`o*ge`o*graph"ic (#), a. -- Bi`o*ge`o*graph"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

ving a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain.

A fish of the turbot kind; the brill. [Written also burt, bret, or brut.] [Prov. Eng.]

Serrate on both sides, as some antennæ.