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ct (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

Having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf.

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]

Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

penly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.

Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.

Having the opposite surfaces alike.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

ssel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

m.), the theory that all chemical compounds consist of two constituents of opposite and unlike qualities.

Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

Having two margins toothed like a comb.

Having a shell or covering like a double shield.

Having, or consisting of, two superposed planes, aërocurves, or the like; of or pertaining to a biplane; as, a biplane rudder.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

onaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain.

Bishoplike; episcopal. [Obs.]

; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. Shak.