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Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things). Binary arithmetic, that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one;…

To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.

Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

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

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.

s smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; 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.

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

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

Anything which is bittersweet.

A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

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

dward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.