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Averrhoa, of the Oxalideæ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

r pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

Resembling a bird.

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

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.

f being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. The lip that curls with bitterness. Percival. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11.

r tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

ebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

ally on animals and plants; a blight. By the blast of God they perish. Job iv. 9. Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast. Shak.

Artistic representation or display.