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The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.

Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.

The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched. Tylor.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject. [R.]

Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.

Having two heads; bicipital. "Bicipitous serpents." Sir T. Browne.

Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.

A double form.

State of being bilateral.

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.

The property or state of being biliteral.

amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.

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

Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.] Bailey.

Bipolar quality.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.