Biconcave (a.) Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae.
Biconjugate (a.) Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.
Biconvex (a.) Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.
Bicorn (a.) Alt. of Bicornous
Bicorned (a.) Alt. of Bicornous
Bicornous (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
Bicorporal (a.) Having two bodies.
Bicorporate (a.) Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
Bicostate (a.) Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
Bicrenate (a.) Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.
Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.
Bicrural (a.) Having two legs.
Bicuspid (a.) Alt. of Bicuspidate
Bicuspidate (a.) Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.
Bicuspid (n.) One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
Bicyanide (n.) See Dicyanide.
Bicycle (n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
Bicycler (n.) One who rides a bicycle.
Bicyclic (a.) Relating to bicycles.
Bicycling (n.) The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.
Bicyclism (n.) The art of riding a bicycle.
Bicyclist (n.) A bicycler.
Bicycular (a.) Relating to bicycling.
Bade (imp.) of Bid
Bid () of Bid
Bad () of Bid
Bidden (p. p.) of Bid
Bid () of Bid
Bidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bid
Bid (v. t.) To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).
Bid (v. t.) To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.
Bid (v. t.) To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.
Bid (v. t.) To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
Bid (v. t.) To invite; to call in; to request to come.
Bid () imp. & p. p. of Bid.
Bid (n.) An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.
Bid (v. t.) To pray.
Bid (v. t.) To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
Bidale (n.) An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief.
Biddable (a.) Obedient; docile.
Bidden () p. p. of Bid.
Bidder (n.) One who bids or offers a price.
Biddery ware () A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened.
Bidding (n.) Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.
Bidding (n.) The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.
Bidding prayer () The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.
Bidding prayer () The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons.
Biddy (n.) A name used in calling a hen or chicken.
Biddy (n.) An Irish serving woman or girl.
Bided (imp. & p. p.) of Bide
Biding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bide
Bide (v. t.) To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
Bide (v. t.) To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.
Bide (v. t.) To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
Bide (v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.
Bident (n.) An instrument or weapon with two prongs.
Bidental (a.) Having two teeth.
Bidentate (a.) Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.
Bidet (n.) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
Bidet (n.) A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.
Bidigitate (a.) Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.
Biding (n.) Residence; habitation.
Bield (n.) A shelter. Same as Beild.
Bield (v. t.) To shelter.
Biennial (a.) Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
Biennial (a.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
Biennial (n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
Biennial (n.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
Biennially (adv.) Once in two years.
Bier (n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
Bier (n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
Bierbalk (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.
Biestings (n. pl.) Alt. of Beestings
Beestings (n. pl.) The first milk given by a cow after calving.
Bifacial (a.) Having the opposite surfaces alike.
Bifarious (a.) Twofold; arranged in two rows.
Bifarious (a.) Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.
Bifariously (adv.) In a bifarious manner.
Biferous (a.) Bearing fruit twice a year.
Biffin (n.) A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
Biffin (n.) A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.
Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
Bifidate (a.) See Bifid.
Bifilar (a.) Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
Biflabellate (a.) Flabellate on both sides.
Biflagellate (a.) Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.
Biflorate (a.) Alt. of Biflorous
Biflorous (a.) Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.
Bifold (a.) Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc.
Bifoliate (a.) Having two leaves; two-leaved.
Bifoliolate (a.) Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.
Biforate (a.) Having two perforations.
Biforine (n.) An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.
Biforked (a.) Bifurcate.
Biform (a.) Having two forms, bodies, or shapes.
Biformed (a.) Having two forms.
Biformity (n.) A double form.
Biforn (prep. & adv.) Before.
Biforous (a.) See Biforate.
Bifronted (a.) Having two fronts.