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A holy-water stoup. Shipley.

A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

A place of worship; a hallowed spot. S. F. Adams.

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted. [Obs.] Chipman.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divine Coleridge. F. W. Newman.

To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Shak.

That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

Bill of health, a certificate from the proper authorities as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time of her leaving port. -- Bill of indictment, a written accusation lawfully presented to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence sufficient to support the accusation, they indorse it "A true bill,"…

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

To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.

To whip with a birch or rod. [Obs.]

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.

, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

oes not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. Shipley. -- Titular bishop (R. C. Ch.), a term officially substituted in 1882 for bishop in partibus. -- Bench of Bishops. See under Bench.

Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pa…