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Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.

Having two forms. Johnson.

Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.

To divide into two branches.

Two-pronged; forked.

A forking, or division into two branches.

A two-horse chariot.

Including two tribes or races of men.

Having two glands, as a plant.

A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance. [Obs.]

Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.

A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.

Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.

A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

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

The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideæ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coördinates.

Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. -- Bi*lin"gual*ly, adv.