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The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.

A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

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.

e or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel.

by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mortality of London. -- Bill of pains and penalties…

A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

ow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lightfoot.

The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter. Acts i. 20.

A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.

To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.

Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.

ant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.

Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.

Of a white or pale color; without color. To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. Milton.

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

A violent gust of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill. Thomson.

A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. Carlton. In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; e…