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To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak.

a is provisionally accepted as representing the probable constitution of the benzene molecule, C6H6, and as the type on which its derivatives are formed.

il of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. [Formerly written also benzule.]

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

f the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. Gwilt.

The territory ruled by a bey.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith.

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule. [Obs. or R.]

The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

rming the function of elements. -- Binary logarithms, a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations, in which 1 is logarithm of 2, instead of 10, as in the common logarithms, and the modulus 1.442695 instead of .43429448. -- Binary measure (Mus.), measure divisible by two or four; comm…

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [infidelium] (R. C. Ch.), a bishop of a see which does not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. Shipley. -- Titular bishop (R. C…

A rule steelyard. [Scot.]

A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret.

Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Col. iii. 19.