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Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.

A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.

The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

The womb. [Obs.] Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. Jer. i. 5.

A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.

constitution of the benzene molecule, C6H6, and as the type on which its derivatives are formed.

A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.

A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

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

Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.

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

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

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

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.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

e structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.