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See Barnacle.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.

Having points in two directions.

A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. -- n.

Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.

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

Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.

Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

Having a double margin, as certain shells.

Twofold; double. [R.] "Binal revenge, all this." Ford.

A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base. Graham.

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;…

Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.

Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.

Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.

Of or pertaining to biodynamics, or the doctrine of vital forces or energy.

The doctrine of vital forces or energy.