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To drink; to sip; to tipple. He was constantly bibbing. Locke.

ble. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.

Relating to the binding of books. [R.]

A bookbinder.

Pertaining to the art of binding books. [R.] Dibdin.

The art of binding books. [R.]

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

nish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. [Eng.]

A slubbing or roving machine.

An instrument combining a cinematograph and a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds.

A combination of two short rectangular glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer.

ation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.

A binnacle. [Obs.]

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.