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The state of being a bastard; bastardy.

See Vital force.

A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.

Beggary. [R.]

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the…

Excessive or extended use of the b sound in speech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

Learning or literature relating to the Bible. [R.]

Love of books.

The trade or business of selling books.

The art of riding a bicycle.

Quality of being bilingual. The bilingualism of King's English. Earle.

The property or state of being biliteral.

The condition of having two mammæ or teats.

r) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

Animal magnetism.

A prism whose refracting angle is very nearly 180 degrees.

Shame; abuse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rule steelyard. [Scot.]

An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans. [Written also Bizmillah.]

Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.