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Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.

Having two forms. Johnson.

Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. "He's too big to go in there." Shak.

Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.

Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.

Having two glands, as a plant.

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.

Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.

Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.

Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.

Having the smell of bilge water.

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. [Obs.]

ries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff. France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.

Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.

Having, or marked with, two spots.

Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

Having two hands; two-handed.