Billy goat () A male goat.
Bilobate (a.) Divided into two lobes or segments.
Bilobed (a.) Bilobate.
Bilocation (n.) Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.
Bilocular (a.) Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp.
Bilsted (n.) See Sweet gum.
Biltong (n.) Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.
Bimaculate (a.) Having, or marked with, two spots.
Bimana (n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.
Bimanous (a.) Having two hands; two-handed.
Bimarginate (a.) Having a double margin, as certain shells.
Bimastism (n.) The condition of having two mammae or teats.
Bimedial (a.) Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).
Bimembral (a.) Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence.
Bimensal (a.) See Bimonthly, a.
Bimestrial (a.) Continuing two months.
Bimetallic (a.) Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
Bimetallism (n.) The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.
Bimetallist (n.) An advocate of bimetallism.
Bimonthly (a.) Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications.
Bimonthly (n.) A bimonthly publication.
Bimonthly (adv.) Once in two months.
Bimuscular (a.) Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
Bin (n.) A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.
Binned (imp. & p. p.) of Bin
Binning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bin
Bin (v. t.) To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
Bin () An old form of Be and Been.
Bin- () A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-.
Binal (a.) Twofold; double.
Binarseniate (n.) A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.
Binary (a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).
Binary (n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.
Binate (a.) Double; growing in pairs or couples.
Binaural (a.) Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.
Bound (imp.) of Bind
Bound (p. p.) of Bind
Bounden () of Bind
Binding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bind
Bind (v. t.) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
Bind (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.
Bind (v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
Bind (v. t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.
Bind (v. t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
Bind (v. t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
Bind (v. t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
Bind (v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
Bind (v. t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
Bind (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
Bind (v. i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
Bind (v. i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
Bind (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
Bind (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
Bind (n.) That which binds or ties.
Bind (n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
Bind (n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
Bind (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
Binder (n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
Binder (n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
Bindery (n.) A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
Bindheimite (n.) An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.
Binding (a.) That binds; obligatory.
Binding (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
Binding (n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
Binding (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
Bindingly (adv.) So as to bind.
Bindingness (n.) The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.
Bindweed (n.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
Bine (n.) The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.
Binervate (a.) Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.
Binervate (a.) Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.
Bing (n.) A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.
Biniodide (n.) Same as Diiodide.
Bink (n.) A bench.
Binnacle (n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
Binny (n.) A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.
Binocle (n.) A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.
Binocular (a.) Having two eyes.
Binocular (a.) Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.
Binocular (a.) Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope.
Binocular (n.) A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
Binocularly (adv.) In a binocular manner.
Binoculate (a.) Having two eyes.
Binomial (n.) An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3.
Binomial (a.) Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.
Binomial (a.) Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs.
Binominal (a.) Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.
Binominous (a.) Binominal.
Binotonous (a.) Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry.
Binous (a.) Same as Binate.
Binoxalate (n.) A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.
Binoxide (n.) Same as Dioxide.
Binturong (n.) A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis.
Binuclear (a.) Alt. of Binucleate
Binucleate (a.) Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.
Binucleolate (a.) Having two nucleoli.
Bioblast (n.) Same as Bioplast.
Biocellate (a.) Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.
Biochemistry (n.) The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
Biodynamics (n.) The doctrine of vital forces or energy.