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Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.

Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.

Of 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.

Having, or marked with, two spots.

Having two eyes.

A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.

Having two nucleoli.

Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

To hum; to buzz. [R.]

A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.

A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift.

Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered. Bullate leaf (Bot.), a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.

Bursiform.

Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.

inary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute. A calencar exacity calculated than any othe. North.

Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.