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urops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

A prominent belly; a big-bellied person. [Obs.]

Made pregnant; big. [Obs.] Barrow.

Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.

Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.

cotton. -- Ground dove (Zoöl.), one of several small American pigeons of the genus Columbigallina, esp. C. passerina of the Southern United States, Mexico, etc. They live chiefly on the ground. -- Ground fish (Zoöl.), any fish which constantly lives on the botton of the sea, as the sole, turbot, halibut. -- Ground…

Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle.

ving the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous.

Equivocally; ambiguously.

Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.

Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.

Want of perspicuity or clearness; vaguness; ambiguity.

Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable. [R.] O! how I burn with implacable fire. Spenser. Which wrought them pain Implacable, and many a dolorous groan. Milton.

A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design. Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. Bp. Burnet.

s, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect. These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism. Burke.

unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted. Religion, harsh, intolerant, austere, Parent of manners like herself severe. Cowper.

A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet- shaped flowers.

A North American river chub (Hybopsis biguttatus).

To cut the throat of. [R.] Jacob Bigelow.

the corresponding cycle. The Julian period was proposed by Scaliger, to remove or avoid ambiguities in chronological dates, and was so named because composed of Julian years. -- Julian year, the year of 365 days, 6 hours, adopted in the Julian calendar, and in use until superseded by the Gregorian year, as established…