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A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin.

Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. H. R. Haggard.

Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry.

The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).

Same as Aleppo boil.

y of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.

A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

The height of the fashion; fashionable society.

A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France. -- n.

Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous. B. Jonson.

British. [Obs.] Spenser. -- n.

A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]