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A book of benedictions.

A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.

A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.

A forking, or division into two branches.

That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.

The production and excretion of bile.

According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

Physiology. [R.] Dunglison.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.

The process of bituminizing. Mantell.

Flattery. [Obs.]

Blattering.

A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.

A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection. Gwilt.

A humming sound; a booming. To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.

A humming or buzzing.

t of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]