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Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.

Belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke.

A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible. Fig.)

Belonging to a library. Byrom.

Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.

h kept the dearest deer from her. Sir P. Sidney. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

r tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: .. not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. ii. 8, 9.

rayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie.

Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.

The business of a broker. [Obs.] And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.

Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs. Bronchial arteries, branches of the descending aorta, accompanying the bronchia in all their ramifications. -- Bronchial cells, the air cells terminating the bronchia. -- Bronchial glands, glands whose functions are unknown, seated along the bronchia. --…

A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.

An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.

Belonging of a burgh.

Belonging to the box tree.