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.), the theory that all chemical compounds consist of two constituents of opposite and unlike qualities.

Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

Having two margins toothed like a comb.

Having a shell or covering like a double shield.

Having, or consisting of, two superposed planes, aërocurves, or the like; of or pertaining to a biplane; as, a biplane rudder.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

naceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain.

Same as Bikh.

Bishoplike; episcopal. [Obs.]

as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. Shak.

Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).

easant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal.

Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black day." "Black despair." Shak.

Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.

ochester. Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods. -- Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods. -- Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods. -- Bladder worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any…

Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. Dryden.

things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.

To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. To blare its own interpretation. Tennyson.