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to be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible. Fig.)

Belonging to a library. Byrom.

A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

sting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Shak.

Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

A name applied to several distinct fishes: (a) The garfish (Tylosurus, or Belone, longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike…

, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.

nt receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs. Binomial theorem (Alg.), the theorem which expresses the law of formation of any power of a binomial.

A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.

are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope

Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.