Bifurcate (a.) Alt. of Bifurcated
Bifurcated (a.) Two-pronged; forked.
Bifurcate (v. i.) To divide into two branches.
Bifurcation (n.) A forking, or division into two branches.
Bifurcous (a.) See Bifurcate, a.
Big (superl.) Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
Big (superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.
Big (superl.) Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
Big (n.) Alt. of Bigg
Bigg (n.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
Big (v. t.) Alt. of Bigg
Bigg (v. t.) To build.
Biga (n.) A two-horse chariot.
Bigam (n.) A bigamist.
Bigamist (n.) One who is guilty of bigamy.
Bigamous (a.) Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.
Bigamy (n.) The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.
Bigarreau (n.) Alt. of Bigaroon
Bigaroon (n.) The large white-heart cherry.
Big-bellied (a.) Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.
Bigeminate (a.) Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.
Bigential (a.) Including two tribes or races of men.
Bigeye (n.) A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.
Bigg (n. & v.) See Big, n. & v.
Biggen (v. t. & i.) To make or become big; to enlarge.
Bigger (a.) compar. of Big.
Biggest (a.) superl. of Big.
Biggin (n.) A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.
Biggin (n.) A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.
Biggin (v. t.) Alt. of Bigging
Bigging (v. t.) A building.
Biggon (n.) Alt. of Biggonnet
Biggonnet (n.) A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.
Bigha (n.) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
Bighorn (n.) The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana).
Bight (v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
Bight (v.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
Bight (v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.
Biglandular (a.) Having two glands, as a plant.
Bigly (a.) In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.
Bigness (n.) The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.
Bignonia (n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.
Bignoniaceous (a.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.
Bigot (n.) A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.
Bigot (n.) A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
Bigot (a.) Bigoted.
Bigoted (a.) Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.
Bigotedly (adv.) In the manner of a bigot.
Bigotry (n.) The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
Bigotry (n.) The practice or tenets of a bigot.
Bigwig (a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.
Big-wigged (a.) characterized by pomposity of manner.
Bihydroguret (n.) A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance.
Bijoux (pl. ) of Bijou
Bijou (n.) A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.
Bijoutry (n.) Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.
Bijugate (a.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets.
Bijugous (a.) Bijugate.
Bike (n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.
Bikh (n.) The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.
Bilabiate (a.) Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.
Bilaciniate (a.) Doubly fringed.
Bilalo (n.) A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.
Bilamellate (a.) Alt. of Bilamellated
Bilamellated (a.) Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.
Bilaminar (a.) Alt. of Bilaminate
Bilaminate (a.) Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates.
Biland (n.) A byland.
Bilander (n.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
Bilateral (a.) Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
Bilateral (a.) Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.
Bilaterality (n.) State of being bilateral.
Bilberries (pl. ) of Bilberry
Bilberry (n.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
Bilberry (n.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.
Bilboes (pl. ) of Bilbo
Bilbo (n.) A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.
Bilbo (n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.
Bilboquet (n.) The toy called cup and ball.
Bilcock (n.) The European water rail.
Bildstein (n.) Same as Agalmatolite.
Bile (n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
Bile (n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.
Bile (n.) A boil.
Bilection (n.) That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
Bilestone (n.) A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.
Bilge (n.) The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
Bilge (n.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
Bilge (n.) Bilge water.
Bilged (imp. & p. p.) of Bilge
Bilging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bilge
Bilge (v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
Bilge (v. i.) To bulge.
Bilge (v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
Bilge (v. t.) To cause to bulge.
Bilgy (a.) Having the smell of bilge water.
Biliary (a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
Biliation (n.) The production and excretion of bile.
Biliferous (a.) Generating bile.
Bilifuscin (n.) A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.