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Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.

See Oryx.

Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.

Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain. -- n.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.

To cut or divide into two parts.

Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.

One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.

With two partitions or septa. Gray.

In two rows or series.

Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.

Having two bristles.

Bisexual. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.