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

ostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. Kirwan.

A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.

A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).

A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

g to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.

A truck for railroad rolling stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.

The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

es open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.

To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. He was blackballed at two clubs in succession. Thackeray.

A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight. By the blast of God they perish. Job iv. 9. Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast. Shak.

[Obs.] When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. Foxe.

a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her lab…

s, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [Eng.] Latimer.

A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.