BI'LANDER. s. [belandre, Fr.] A fmall veffel ufed for the carriage of goods. Dryden. BILBERRY. s. [biliz, Saxon, a bladder, and berry.] Whortleberry. John. BIGSWOLN. a. [from big and fwoln.] Turgid. • To pray. to drink. BIDDEN. par paf. from to bid. 1. Invited. z. Commanded. T, BIDE. .#. Bacon. Pope. BIDDER.. (from to bid.] One who offers or propoles a price. Addifon. BIDDING, 5. [from bid] Command; order. Milton. T. BIDE. v. e. [bidan, Saxon.] To endure; to raffer Dryden. 1 To dwell; to live; to inhabit. Milton, To remain in a place. Shakespeare. BIDE/NTAL. a. [bidens, Latin.] Having two Swift. BIDING. s. [from bide.] Refidence; habitaRowe. BIENNIAL. a. [biennis, Latin.] Of the continuance of two years. Ray. BIER.. [from to bear.] A carriage on which the dead are carried to the grave. Milton. BIESTINGS. [byrting, Saxon.] The first malk given by a cow after calving. Dryden. RIFARIOUS. 4. [Lifarius, Latin.] Twofold. BYFERGUS. a. [biferens, Latin.] Bearing fruit teeth. tion. rvice a year. BIFID. BFFIDATED.S a.[bifidus, Lat.] Opening with BIFOLD. e. [from bizus, Lat. and fold.] Shakespeare. BIFORMED. a. [biformis, Latin.] Compounded of two forms. BIFURCATED. a.[binus and furca.] Booting out into two heads. Woodward. BIFURCATION...[binus and furca.] Division into two. DIG. a. BILBO. s. [from Bilboa.] A rapier ; a sword. Shakespeare. BILBOES. a. A fort of stocks. Shakespeare. BILE. s. [bilis, Latin.] A thick, yellow, bitter liquor, feparated in the liver, collected in the gall bladder, and discharged by the com mon duct. Quincy BILE... [bile, Saxon.] A fore angry fwelling. To BILGE. v. n. [from the noun. To fpring a leak. BILIARY.a. [from bilis, Latin.] Belonging to the bile. Arbuthnot. BILINGSGATE. J. Ribaldry; foul language. Pope. BILINGUOUS. e. [bilinguis, Lat.] Having two tongues. BILIOUS. a. [from bilis, Latin.] Confisting of bile. Garth. To BILK. v. a. [bilaican, Gothick.] To cheat; to defraud. Dryden. BILL. s. [bile, Saxon.] The beak of a fowl. BELLET. s. [billet, Fr.] 4. Fall of tomething. Addifon. 1. A fmall paper; a note. 5. Diftended; fwoln. Shakespeare. 6. Creat in air and mein; proud. Afcbam. Shakespeare. 7. Great in fpirit; brave. BIGAMIST.. [bigamus, low Latin.] One that bas committed bigamy. Arbuth. BIGAMY..[bigamia, low Latin.] The crime Shakespeare. BIGGIN.. [beguin, Fr.] A child's cap. Shakespeare. BIGLY. ad. [from big.] Tumidly; haughtily. Dryden. Clarendon. 2. Billetdoux, or a foft billet; a love letter. BIND. s. A fpecies of hops. BINDER. s. (from to bind. 1. The act of coming into life. 2. Extraction; lineage. Irydea Denham 3. Rank which is inherited by defcent. Dry 4. The condition in which any man is born. Dryden. make ap Addifon. 5. Thing born. Mortimer, 6. The act of bringing forth. Locke. BIRTHDAY. s. [from birth and day.] The day on which any one is born. Mortimer. 1. A man whofe trade it is to bind books. 2. A man that binds fheaves. Chapman. 3. A fillet; a fhred cut to bind with. Wisem: BINDING. s. [from bind.] A bandage. Tatier. BINDWEED. s. [convolvelus, Latin.] The name of a plant. BINOCLE. A telefcope fitted fo with two tubes, as that a diftant object may be feen with both eyes. BINO'CULAR. a. [from binus and ocuius, Latin.] Having two eyes. Derbam. BIOGRAPHER. s. [bies and you pw.] A writer of lives. Addifon. BIOGRAPHY. s. [Bios and yeápa.] Writing the lives of men is called biography. Watts. BVPAROUS. a. [from binus and pario, Lat.] Bringing forth two at a birth. BIPARTITE. a. [hinus and partior, Latin.] Having two correfpondent parts. BIPARTITION.s. [from hip tite.] The act of dividing into two. BIPED. s. [bipes, Latin.] An animal with two Brown. EIPE NNATED. a. [from binus BIRD. . [bind or brid, Saxon.] A general term of the feathered kind; a fowl. Locke. born. BIRTHDOM. s. Privilege of birth. Shake. BIRTHNIGHT. 5. [from birth and night.] The night in which any one is born. Mitan BIRTHPLACE. s. Place where any one is Swift. BIRTHRIGHT.. [from birth and right.] The rights and privileges to which a man is born; the right of the first born: Addifor BIRTHSTRANGLED. a. Strangled in being Shakespeare BIRTHWORT... The name of a plant." BISCOTIN. . A confection. BISCUIT. s. [bis and cuit, French.] 1. A kind of dry bread, made to be carried to fea. Knoll 2. Compofition of fine flour, almonds, and fugar. born. To BISECT. v. a. [binus and feco, Lat.] To divide into two parts. BISECTION. from the verb.] A geometrical term, fignifying the divifion of any quantity into two equal parts. BISHOP. s. [biycop, Saxon.] One of the head order of the clergy. South. BISHOP. s. A cant word for a mixture of wine, oranges, and fugar. Swift To BI'SHOP. v. a. To confirm; to admit folemnly into the church. BYSHOPRICK. s. diocefe of a bishop. Pope. BI'SSÓŇ. a. Blind. Breton. Shak BISTRE. s. [French.] A colour made of chimney-foot boiled, and then diluted with water, Amach meat as is put into the mouth at A fmall piece of any thing. Swift. A Spanish Weft-Indian filver coin valued Lvenpence halfpenny. 44 bit the better or worse. In the smallest degree. Arbuthnot. BIT... To put the briddle upon a horse. BITCH.. (birge, Saxon.] 1. The female of the canine kind. Spenfer. LA came of reproach for a woman. Arbath. T BITE. 4. pret. 1 bit; part. paff. I have but, or bitten, [bitan, Saxon.] 1 Te crush, or pierce with the teeth. Arbutb. To give pain by cold. To hurt or pain with reproach. 4 To cut; to wound. a. Compounded of bitt Bacon. BIVALVE. a. [binus and valva.] Having two valves or fhutters; ufed of thofe, fifh that have two fhells, as oyfters. Woodward. BIVALVULAR. a. [from bivalve.] Having two valves. BIXWORT. s. An herb. BIZANTINE. J. [from Byzantium.] A great piece of gold valued at fifteen pounds, which the king offered upon high festival days. Camder Rowe. Rofcom. Shak. Bacon. 2. Dark. Pope. To make the mouth smart with an acrid 6. To cheat; to trick. 7. BITE. 2. 2. To take the bait. BITE...from the verb.] 1. The feizure of any thing by the teeth. Dry. 2. The act of a fifh that takes the bait. Walt. 3. A cheat; a trick. 4. A fharper. BITER. 1. from bite.] 1. He that bites. Swift. Camden. A fifh apt to take the bait. Walton, 3. A tricker; a deceiver. Spectator. BITACLE. 5. A frame of timber in the Beerage, where the compafs is placed. Dic. BITTER. a. [biten, Saxon.] Skinner. Proverbs. King: Shak. Dryden. Shak 3. Cloudy of countenance; fullen. 4. Horrible; wicked. 5. Difimal; mournful. BLACK-BRYONY. s. The name of a plant. BLACK-CATTLE. §. Oxen, bulls, and cows. BLACK-GUARD. §. A dirty fellow. A low term. Swift. BLACK-LEAD, s. A mineral found in the lead mines, ufed for pencils. BLACK. PUDDING . A kind of food made of blood and corn. BLACK-ROD, s. [from black and red.] The ufher belonging to the order of the garter; fo called from the black rod he carries in his hand. He is uther of the parliament. Locke. BLACK. &. [from the adjective.] 1. Having a hot, acrid, biting tafte, like wormwood. 1. A black colour. Sprat. Dryden. 2. Mourning. Sbak. 3. A blackamoor. Watts. Newton. Dryden 2. A blifter; a puftule. BLADDER-NUT. s. [ftaphylolendren, Lat.] A plant. BLADDER-SENA. s. A plant. 4. The point to which an arrow is direct 5. Aim. Sh 6. Object to which any thing is directed. BLADE. s. [blæð, Saxon.] The fpire of grafs; To BLANK. v. a. [from blank.] Bacon. 1. The fharp or ftriking part of a weapon or inftrument. 2. A brisk man, either fierce or gay. L'Efr. BLADE of the Shoulder. s. The fcapula or Shoulder fcapular bone. BLA'DEBONE. To BLADE. v. a. [from the noun.] To fit with a blade. Shak. BLA'DED. a. [from blade.] Having blades or blifter. Milton Speeft 1. To damp; to confufe; to difpirit. Ti 2. To efface; to annul. BLA'NKET. s. [blanchette, French.] 1. A woolen cover, foft, and loosely woven 2. A kind of pear. Temp Sha Pe In a blan To BLANKET. v. a. [from the noun. To BLASPHE/ME. v. a. [blafphemo. low Lat 2. To fpeak evil of. To BLASPHE'ME v. n. To speak blafphemy Cul- Shak. BLA'MEFUL a. [from blame and full.] Locke. innocent. BLA'MELESLY. ad. [from blameless.] Innocently. Hammond. BLAMELESNESS. s. [from blameless.] In nocence. Hammond. BLA'MER. . [from blame.] A cenfurer. Dryden. gentle. 1. Act of fondnefs; expreffion of tenderness by gefture. 2. Soft words; kind speeches. 3. Kind treatment; carefs. Milton. Bacon. BLAST. s. [from blære, Saxon.] Shak 2. The found made by any inftrument el wind mufick. Milton. 3. The ftroke of a malignant planet. Jul To BLAST. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To ftrike with fome fudden plague. Ad 2. To make wither. Shak Stilling fleet. 3. To injure; to invalidate. 4. To confound; to ftrike with terrour." SI. BLA'STMENT. . [from blaft.] Sudden ftroke of infection. Sbal. BLATANT. a. [blattant, Fr.] Bellowing as a calf. To roar. Dryden To BLATTER. v. n. [from blatero, Latm.1 1. A flame; the light of a flame. Dryden 3. A white mark upon a horfe. Swift. To BLAZE. v, n, |