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rs of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opin…

The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain. Shak.

is clear of everything; -- said of a cask. -- Bilge pump, a pump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship. -- Bilge water (Naut.), water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the c…

A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

inds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.

r of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

al individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

rch wine, wine made of the spring sap of the birch. -- Oil of birch. (a) An oil obtained from the bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. l…