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Having two margins toothed like a comb.

Having two wings. "Bipennated insects." Derham.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.

Twice pinnate.

Doubly pinnatifid.

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

To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. "Bituminated walls of Babylon." Feltham.

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.

A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.

To hum; to boom.

A humming or buzzing.

deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.

Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.

Perishable goods. Bouvier.

A showy wanton; a courtesan. Shak

A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper.

Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding. [Obs.]

In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [Colloq. U. S.]

Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.