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Resembling a bird.

A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also byrlaw, birlie, birley.]

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.

formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.

f 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.

r tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

ns and lower menials 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 manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

ind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

Of a white or pale color; without color. To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. Milton.

To be resplendent. Macaulay. To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.]

To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey.

ut often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.