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One versed in two languages.

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. [Obs.]

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.

A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person. Marryat.

fe at the place directed, dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a plac…

e player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

Divided into two lobes or segments.

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.

Having, or marked with, two spots.

Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

Having two hands; two-handed.

The condition of having two mammæ or teats.

Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence. J. W. Gibbs.

Continuing two months. [R.]

The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n.

Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.