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Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast tp support the trestletrees.

nsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.

Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.

Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.

hall "emit bills of credit." U. S. Const. Peters. Wharton. Bouvier (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money. -- Bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relatio…

An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.]

A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.

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

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20).

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

Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.

is teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. Hakluyt. Sins which black thy soul. J. Fletcher.

e, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

de. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.

ression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure. Let me bear the blame forever. Gen. xiiii. 9.

then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17.