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A place of worship; a hallowed spot. S. F. Adams.

Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.

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

To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.

A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

Having, or marked with, two spots.

A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. "Potato bings." Burns. "A bing of corn." Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]

Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

Having two punctures, or spots.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. Wh…

Crude potash. De Colange.

One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Shak.

A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

Without blemish; spotless. A life in all so blemishless. Feltham.

A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

l, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- calle…