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Rod-shaped.

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

Bailiff. [Obs.]

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.

One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells.

In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.

A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.

"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

Embattled. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To furnish or deck with a frill.

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

To make still.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. "As pigeons bill." Shak. To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.

A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.

One who negotiates the discount of bills.

A person who holds a bill or acceptance.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.