Dictionary
An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Bile, n. p. 132A yellow, greenish, bitter, viscid, nauseous fluid secreted by the liver. 2. Bitterness of feeling; ill-humor; as, to stir one's bile.Bile, n. p. 132An inflamed tumor; a boil.Bile'dūct, n. p. 132A vessel or canal to convey bile;—a term applied to the hepatic duct and its branches. Darwin.Bile'stōne, n. p. 132A gall-stone, or biliary calculus, which see. Darwin.Bilge, n. p. 132The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle. 2. (Naut.) That part of a ship's bottom or floor which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground. Hence…Bilge, v. t. p. 132(Naut.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge; to let in water. Mar. Dict.Bilged, p. a. p. 132Having a fracture in the bilge; having the bottom stove in.Bilge'-pūmp, n. p. 132(Naut.) A pump to draw the bilge-water from a ship. Totten.Bilge'-wa/ter, n. p. 132(Naut.) Water which enters a ship, and lies upon her bilge or bottom, becoming, ordinarily, very offensive. Totten.Bilge'-ways, n. p. 132(Naut.) Pieces of timber bolted together and placed under the bilge of a vessel to support her in launching. R. H. Dana.Bil'gy, a. p. 132Having the smell, &c., of bilge-water.Bĭl'ia-ry, a. p. 132(Med.) Pertaining to the bile; conveying the bile; as, a biliary duct. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gall-stone, or a concretion formed in the gall-bladder or its duct. — Biliary duct, the hepatic duct.Bil-iā'tion, n. p. 132The excretion of bile. Dunglison.Bĭl'ings-gāte, n. p. 132See BILLINGSGATE.Bī-lĭn'gual or Bī-lĭn'guar, a. p. 132Containing two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.Bi-lin'guous, a. p. 132Having two tongues, or speaking two languages.Bil'ious, a. p. 132Pertaining to the bile; disordered in respect to the bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on an excess of bile; as, bilious temperament; bilious symptoms. “A bilious old nabob.” Macaulay.Bi-lit'er-al, a. p. 132Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root in language. Sir W. Jones.Bilk, v. t. p. 132To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by non-fulfillment of engagement; as, to bilk a creditor.Bilk, n. p. 132A cheat; a trick. [Rare.] Hudibras. 2. Nonsense; vain words. B. Jonson.Bill, n. p. 132The beak of a fowl. “In his bill An olive-leaf he brings.” Milton. 2. The note of a bird. “The bittern’s hollow bill was heard.” Wordsworth.Bill, n. p. 132A cutting instrument, curved forward, or hook-shaped, toward the point, and fitted with a handle, like a hatchet; — used in pruning, &c.; when short called a hand-bill, when long a hedge-bill. 2. A…Bill, n. p. 132(Law.) (a.) A declaration in writing, expressing some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law. (b.) In England, an obligation or…Bill, v. i. p. 133To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. “As pigeons bill.” Shak.Bill, v. t. p. 133To advertise by a bill or public notice. [Cant.] L’Estrange.Bill'age, n. p. 133(Naut.) The breadth of a ship's floor when aground.Bill'-boards, n. p. 133(Naut.) Pieces of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the fore channels of a ship, for the bill of the anchor to pass over freely. Totten.Bill'-book, n. p. 133(Com.) A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, and the like, thus showing all that he issues and receives. Bouvier.Bill'-brō'ker, n. p. 133One who negotiates the discount of bills.Billed, a. p. 133(Ornith.) Furnished with a bill, as a bird;—used in composition.Bil'let, n. p. 133A small paper or note in writing, or a short letter. “I got your melancholy billet.” Sterne. 2. A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence. 3.…Bil'let, n. p. 133A small stick of wood. They shall beat out my brains with billets. Shak. 2. (Arch.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood.Bil'let, v. t. p. 133(Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence, to quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. “Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.” Irving.Bil'let-doux, n. p. 133A love note or letter. “A lover chanting out a billet-doux.” Spectator.Bil'let-hēad, n. p. 133A piece of timber at the bow or stem of a whale-boat, around which the harpoon-line is run out when the whale darts off.Bill'-fish, n. p. 133(Ichth.) A fish of the North American coast, the Belone truncata.Bill'-hook, n. p. 133A small hatchet with curved edge. Campbell.Bill'iard, a. p. 133Pertaining to the game of billiards; as, a billiard room, table, or ball. “Smooth as is a billiard ball.” B. Jonson.Bil'liards, n. p. 133A game played on a rectangular table, covered with a cloth, with small ivory balls, which the players aim to drive into hazard-nets or pockets at the sides and corners of the tables, by impelling one…Bĭl'lings-gāte, n. p. 133Foul or profane language; ribaldry. There, stripped, fair rhetoric languished on the ground, And shameful billingsgate her robes adorn. Pope.Bĭl'lion, n. p. 133According to the French method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million of millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See NUMERATION.Bĭll'man, n. p. 133One who uses a bill or hooked ax;— applied particularly to soldiers. “A billman of the guard.” Saville.Bĭl'lōn, n. p. 133An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper, used in coinage.Bĭl'lot, n. p. 133Gold or silver in the bar or mass.Bĭl'lōw, n. p. 133A great wave or surge of the sea, occasioned usually by violent wind. Loud billows lash the sounding shore. Pope.Bĭl'lōw, v. i. p. 133To swell; to rise and roll in large waves or surges. “The billowing snow.” Prior.Bĭl'lōw-bēat'en, a. p. 133Tossed by billows.Bĭl'lōwed, a. p. 133Swelled, like a billow.Bĭl'lōw-y, a. p. 133Swelling, or swelled into large waves; wavy; full of billows or surges; turgid. “Billowy deep.” Warton. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.Bĭll'-stĭck'er, n. p. 133One who posts up bills in public places.Bĭl'ly, n. p. 133A watchman's club. [Cant.]Bī'lōbed or Bī-lō'bate, a. p. 133(Bot.) Divided into two lobes; as, a bilobate leaf. Gray.Bī-lŏc'ū-lar, a. p. 133(Bot.) Divided into two cells, or containing two cells internally; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.Bī-măc'ū-late, a. p. 133Having two spots.Bī-mā'nȧ, n. p. 133(Zoöl.) Animals having two hands;—a term applied by Cuvier to the highest order of Mammalia, of which man is the type and sole species.Bī-mā'noŭs, a. p. 133(Zoöl.) Having two hands; as, man is bimanous.Bī-mär'ġi-nate, a. p. 133(Conch.) Having a double margin as far as the tip, as certain shells.Bī-mē'di-al, a. p. 133(Geom.) When two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square) are added together, and the sum is incommensurable in respect to either, the sum is called by Euclid a…Bī-mĕm'bral, a. p. 133(Gram.) Having two members, as a sentence. J. W. Gibbs.Bī-mĕn'sal or Bī-mĕs'tri-al or Bī-mȯnth'ly, a. p. 133Occurring once in two months.