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

ce and Princess of Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several States. -- Bill of sale, a formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and chattels. -- Bill of sight, a form…

s 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.

Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

An old form of Be and Been. [Obs.]

indeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph.

nstrument combining a cinematograph and a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds.

An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see).

Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

il prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

ottia (N. nidus-avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, generalas, a bird's-eye view.

The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

d fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in (…

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.

stalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

ion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.