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A mania for acquiring books.

One who has a mania for books. -- a.

In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. De Quincey.

To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. D. Jerrold.

An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief. [Prov. Eng.]

In a bifarious manner.

Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.

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

In the manner of a bigot.

characterized by pomposity of manner. [Eng.]

A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. W. Irving.

n into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

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

In a binocular manner.

tial to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

A two-footed animal, as man.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

In the manner of a bishop. [Obs.]