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Capable of being divided into two parts.

Dividing into two parts. -- n.

Divisible into two parts.

Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions. Gray.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

To cut or divide into two parts.

Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.

To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.

f death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. -- To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "Do you bite your thumb at us " Shak. -- To bite the tongue, to keep silence. Shak…

The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch. G. Francis.

A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

rdroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, an…

To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. He was blackballed at two clubs in succession. Thackeray.

charged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.