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Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.

To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. "Bituminated walls of Babylon." Feltham.

Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

The state of being bloated.

The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of…

The Sate of Kentucky; -- a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses are bred.

To hum; to buzz. [R.]

To hum; to boom.

A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.

A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.

can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.