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Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.

Resembling bent. Holland.

A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.…

(Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.

An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

Resembling a bird.

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." Milton.

A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

A kind of large knife resembling a machete. [Phil. Islands]

name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.