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A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

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

A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.

The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.

s: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

y black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

rk out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.

king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. Addison.

was a pleasant Bohemian life till she was five and thirty. Blackw. Mag. Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zoöl.), a small bird of Europe and America (Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing. -- Bohemian glass, a variety of hard glass of fine…

, said to have been originally invented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design.

Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.

A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done. "This botchy business." Bp. Watson.

[Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

tures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.