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in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.

To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." Prior.

Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.

nets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.

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

Having two wings. "Bipennated insects." Derham.

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

A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

A small scrubby tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.

ral birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelæus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.

A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

f a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing. With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.

tream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.