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An instrument or weapon with two prongs.

Having two teeth. Swift.

Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.

A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.

Same as Diiodide.

Same as Dioxide.

A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret.

A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

A kind of meteor; a bolis.

eit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.

Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.

A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.

A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.

A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.

An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.

out to be married. Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lyttleton. I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. xxi. 9.

A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale. The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson.

The marriage bed. [Poetic]

Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.