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Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence. J. W. Gibbs.

to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

ecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.

A dwelling. Gibson.

re radiant heat info kight; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall.

however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative. J. W. Gibbs.

tegorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.

convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. Gibbon.

Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." Sir M. Hale.

lton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.

Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind. The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. Locke.

Intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.

witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip. On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. L'Estrange. Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line. Pope. Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below…

conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life. Gibbon. Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Is. lix. 13.

Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.

A gibbet, cosisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. Nailed to the cross By his own nation. Milton.

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet. They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. Luke xxiii. 21.

To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion. he'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. The Presbyterians, and other fanatics…