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The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

tem by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs. Binomial theorem (Alg.), the theorem which expresses the law of formation of any power of a binomial.

Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.

A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.

An aëroplane with two main supporting surfaces one above the other.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

produced, whether animal or vegetable. Poets are far rarer births that kings. B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. Addison.

One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.

In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

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 (pawl bitts) etc.

anadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.

nials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, 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…

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.

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

Bladder worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus. -- Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.