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Twofold; arranged in two rows.

Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.

declaration presented by the Lords and Commons of England to the Prince and Princess of Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several States. -- Bill of sale, a formal instrument for the c…

A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar. Swift.

l warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

Aim; shot; range. [Obs.] I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech. Shak.

A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidæ, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language. L'Estrange.

Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.

erial used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

The refrain of a song. To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. L'Estrange.

Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. "Bodily defects." L'Estrange.

The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]

The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca). The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies. U. S. Census (1880).

Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.

sifting or bolting; -- with out. Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. L'Estrange.

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths…

leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.