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Quality of being bilingual. The bilingualism of King's English. Earle.

The state of being bilious.

The property or state of being biliteral.

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge.

Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

Capable of being divided into two parts.

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.

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar. Swift.

brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507º Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or 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.…

The quality of being bivalent.

The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. The black or sight of the eye. Sir K. Digby.

who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webs…

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.

The state or quality of being bland.