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In a binocular manner.

Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.

Bipolar quality.

Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.

Having two valves.

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared." Tennyson.

Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. [Colloq.] Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.

See Boilery.

Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.

pright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

(Zoöl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

Relating to the brain; cerebral. I. Taylor.

A place for boiling or preparating salt; a boilery. Crabb. And certain salt fats or bullaries. Bills in Chancery.

One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

A burglar. [Obs.]

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.

With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.

Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill.

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plant, biought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

Of or pertaining to calculi.