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A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain. Shak.

ed, dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a…

A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.

Birdcatching or fowling. Shak. Birding piece, a fowling piece. Shak.

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

hing, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.

Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.

A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God. Thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. Acts viii. 23.

upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

re a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. Carlton. In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; e…

A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. [U. S.]

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning.…

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

e dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To blow up, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.