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A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. Milton.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. 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.

knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.

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

h power. Biquadratic equation (Alg.), an equation of the fourth degree, or an equation in some term of which the unknown quantity is raised to the fourth power. -- Biquadratic root of a number, the square root of the square root of that number. Thus the square root of 81 is 9, and the square root of 9 is 3, which is t…

of the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.…

- Bird spider (Zoöl.), a very large South American spider (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to capture and kill small birds. -- Bird tick (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds (genus Ornithomyia, and allies), usually winged.

Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. Prescott.

Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.

Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.

Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.

In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507º Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of som…

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.