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chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

A bristle or bristles. [Scot.]

A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.

Having two bristles.

The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching. Humorist.

getable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics. -- Bitter salt, Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate. -- Bitter vetch (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia. -- To the bitter end, to the last extremity, however calamitous.…

The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.

unt a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

is (Chem.), analysis by means of the blowpipe. -- Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe.

The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.

Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. Reason and morals and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! Byron.

nce, as opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. ii. 17.

The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian. [Modern]

The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca). The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies. U. S. Census (1880).

Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.