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Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.

ig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20).

Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, generalas, a bird's-eye view.

A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.

asten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.

soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal.

To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

Soot flying in the air. [Eng.]

Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.

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

A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.

A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.

d. Ure. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett.

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber. H. Miller.

The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. All generations shall call me blessed. Luke i. 48. Towards England's blessed shore. Shak.

block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

r's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.