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One versed in two languages.

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. [Obs.]

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

t is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lightfoot.

A sharper; one who cheats. [Slang] Johnson.

Crude potash. De Colange.

Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.

A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay.

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. De Colange.

a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats. -- Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange. -- Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind. -- Blank verse. See under Verse. -- Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.

A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. [Slang]

by report; to publish; to disclose. Through the court his courtesy was blown. Dryden. His language does his knowledge blow. Whiting.

A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett.

e organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army. -- Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] Carlyle. -- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verditer. See Verditer. -- Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of coppe…

Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language. L'Estrange.

To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. In God we boast all the day long. Ps. xiiv. 8

A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.