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Having two teeth. Swift.

Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.

To make or become big; to enlarge. [Obs. or Dial.] Steele.

n 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.]

bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

A rule steelyard. [Scot.]

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. Shak.

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. Hakluyt. Sins which black thy soul. J. Fletcher.

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

t coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.

To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jer. iv. 3.

he film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

n; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

iform. -- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice. -- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.] -- Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used…

A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.