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A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

eansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lightfoot.

called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.

advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! Shak.

t, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

ey. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight. By the blast of God they perish. Job iv. 9. Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast. Shak.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." Croly.

ers attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. Ure. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett.

One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]