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The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

Shaped like a rod or staff.

See Diatom.

Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.

To bully; to threaten. [Low] T. Warton.

A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. [Written also baslard.] Fairholt.

Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. [R.] "Basilar instincts." H. W. Beecher.

(Bot.) See Larkspur.

any, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

Having two angles or corners.

Of or pertaining to the sale of books. "Bibliopolic difficulties." Carlyle.

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Relating to bicycling.

Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance. Bifilar micrometer (often called a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar…

Having two glands, as a plant.

An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.]

Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.

Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.

Having two eyes. "Most animals are binocular." Derham.