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Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim. Shak.

Belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible. Fig.)

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

Belonging to a library. Byrom.

o regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted…

The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

The bell, or boom, of the bittern The bittern's hollow bill was heard. Wordsworth.

A name applied to several distinct fishes: (a) The garfish (Tylosurus, or Belone, longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike…

a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.

us, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.

A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

lant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs. Binomial theorem (Alg.), the theorem which expresses the law of formation of any power of a binomial.

A believer in the theory of biogenesis.

Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon…