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The act of attempering or regulating. [Archaic] Bacon.

The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.

A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.

The treatment of disease by baths.

To rain upon; to wet with rain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. [Obs.] Shak.

TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.

applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. Bentham.

or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.

State of being bilateral.

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.

The property or state of being biliteral.

Blattering.

wing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

Having short antennæ, as certain insects.

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.