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Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. Bentham.

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule. [Obs. or R.]

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

Having, or terminating in, two tails.

Two-tailed; bicaudal.

Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. -- n.

Consisting of two hundred years.

Having two heads.

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.

A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.

Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.

Having two heads; bicipital. "Bicipitous serpents." Sir T. Browne.

To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland.

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

Of two colors.

Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

Having two bodies.

Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.