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tory or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

ive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.

ther element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.

To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. Milton.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

e with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, 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 other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

instead of .43429448. -- Binary measure (Mus.), measure divisible by two or four; common time. -- Binary nomenclature (Nat. Hist.), nomenclature in which the names designate both genus and species. -- Binary scale (Arith.), a uniform scale of notation whose ratio is two. -- Binary star (Astron.), a double star whos…

To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

rd spider (Zoöl.), a very large South American spider (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to capture and kill small birds. -- Bird tick (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds (genus Ornithomyia, and allies), usually winged.

Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. Prescott.

A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

ng, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.

inican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

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

A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.