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See Bifurcate, a. [R.] Coles.

Generating bile.

A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

Doubly pinnatifid.

Containing bismuth.

Producing bitumen. Kirwan.

An innkeeper.

Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence. Dr. H. More.

To convert into, or make, good. To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.

Having the shape of a sausage. Henslow.

Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke.

Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped. [R.]

A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.

ike a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.

Producing bulbs.

See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.

Shaped like a purse.

Bearing a byssus or tuft.