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Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.

Having two perforations.

ower, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

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

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

salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.

A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

Short-billed; having a short beak.

A salt of butyric acid.

To curl or friz, as the hair. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. Gray.

To kick.

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.

To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Combined or impregnated with camphor. Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.

To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.

Hooded; cowled.

A salt of capric acid.

One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.