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d wide distribution of the Bible. -- Douay Bible. See Douay Bible. -- Geneva Bible. See under Geneva.

e, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

; to abide; to stay. All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.

or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. Bill of adventure. See under Adventure. -- Bill of costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action. -- Bill of credit. (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper issued by a State,…

To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. Abbott.

Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. [R.] B. Jonson.

See under Maple.

n is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

, a term officially substituted in 1882 for bishop in partibus. -- Bench of Bishops. See under Bench.

it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. -- Berlin black. See under Berlin.

iced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.

or mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

s. -- Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange. -- Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind. -- Blank verse. See under Verse. -- Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.

ils of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

bellowing. With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.

Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.