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arts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.

A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

nc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

dian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

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

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

emed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

ess. "As pigeons bill." Shak. To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.

h. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.]

ar glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer.

several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

the related plant, Trigonella ornithopodioides, is also European.

aw made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also byrlaw, birlie, birley.]

A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.

A fish of the turbot kind; the brill. [Written also burt, bret, or brut.] [Prov. Eng.]

Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans. [Written also Bizmillah.]

rous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color. [Written also bismuthite.]