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The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.

A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec. [Obs.] Nares.

all threestringed viol; a rebec. Moore (Encyc. of Music). All can be play on gittern or ribible. Chaucer.

A ribble. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who drinks much wine. Prov. xxiii. 20. -- Wine"bib`bing, n.

To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body. Bacon.

An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E. Darwin.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).

Without sympathy; unfavorably. To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

uther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.

Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be read in churches," and has been the accepted English Bible. The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855.

The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young men; -- so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah (Meaning blessing) occurring in 2 Chron. xx. 26 and 1 Chron. xii.

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

riodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

other. Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.