Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 41
Biconcave (a.) 兩面凹的 Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebr[ae].
Biconcave (a.) Concave on both sides [syn: biconcave, concavo-concave].
Biconjugate (a.) (Bot.) 雙對；雙共軛 Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. -- Gray.
Biconvex (a.) 兩面凸的 Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens. Bicorned; Bicorn
Biconvex (a.) Convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil [syn: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform].
Bicorn (a.) Alt. of Bicornous.
Bicorned (a.) Alt. of Bicornous.
Bicornous (a.) 【動】【植】雙角的；新月形的，月牙形的 Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
Compare: Crescent
Crescent (n.) 新月；弦月 [C]；新月狀物；新月形麵包；新月形街道 [C] The curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon.
‘The moon was a slender crescent.’
Crescent (n.) A representation of a crescent used as an emblem of Islam or of Turkey.
‘On the flag was embroidered the Turkish crescent.’
Crescent (n.) (The Crescent) [Historical ] The political power of Islam or of the Ottoman Empire.
Crescent (n.) A thing that has has the shape of a single curve, especially one that is broad in the center and tapers to a point at each end.
‘A three-mile crescent of golden sand.’
‘A crescent-shaped building.’
Crescent (n.) [British] A street or row of houses forming an arc.
‘We lived at Westway Crescent.’
Crescent (n.) [Heraldry] A charge in the form of a crescent, typically with the points upward (also a mark of cadency for a second son).
Crescent (n.) A moth or butterfly with crescent-shaped markings on the wings.
An orange or brown American butterfly with a silvery mark on the underside of the hind wing (genus Phyciodes, subfamily Melitaeinae, family Nymphalidae) and a brownish European moth with a pale mark on the forewing (several species in the family Noctuidae, in particular Celaena leucostigma).
‘Now, 10 years later, the trees are growing strong, welcome news to the pearl crescent butterfly.’
Crescent (a.) 新月形的 Having the shape of a crescent.
‘A crescent moon.’
Crescent (a.) [Literary] 逐漸增大的 Growing, increasing, or developing.
‘The crescent ray grew to immense proportions and then flew downward.’
Bicorporal (a.) 有兩體的，雙身的 Having two bodies.
Bicorporal (a.) 【天文學】有兩個主部的〔黃道十二宮的某些標志〕 (＝ bicorporeal) Of a sign of the zodiac: represented by two figures.
Bicorporate (a.) (Her.) Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
Bicostate (a.) (Bot.) Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
Bicrenate (a.) (Bot.) 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. -- Hooker. Bicuspid
Bicuspid (a.) Alt. of Bicuspidate.
Bicuspidate (a.) Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.
Bicuspid (n.) (Anat.) 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.
Bicuspid (a.) Having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth); "bicuspid teeth"; "bicuspid leaves" [syn: bicuspid, bicuspidate].
Bicuspid (n.) A tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars [syn: premolar, bicuspid].
Compare: Dicyanide
Dicyanide (n.) (Chem.) A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.
Bicyanide (n.) See Dicyanide.
Safety bicycle () A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually about 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear. Since the 1930's this has been the most common type of bicycle, now simply called bicycle. The older high-wheelers are often referred to as bone-rattlers.
Safety bicycle (n.) Bicycle that has two wheels of equal size; pedals are connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear [syn: safety bicycle, safety bike].
Bicycle (n.) 腳踏車，自行車 [C] 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.
Bicycle (n.) A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals [syn: bicycle, bike, wheel, cycle].
Bicycle (v.) 騎腳踏車 [Q] Ride a bicycle [syn: bicycle, cycle, bike, pedal, wheel].
Bicycler (n.) One who rides a bicycle.
Bicycler (n.) A person who rides a bicycle [syn: cyclist, bicyclist, bicycler, wheeler].
Bicycles (n.) The first bicycle, probably created by the German Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun in the early 1800s, was a form of hobby-horse that was propelled by the rider's feet pushing against the ground. The first treadle-propelled cycle was designed by the Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan around 1839. By the end of the 19th century, bicycles had wire wheels, metal frames, and pneumatic tires. What did 19th century suffragists and feminists call the bicycle?
Compare: Cyclic
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) 圓的；環式的；循環的；週期的；【化】環（狀）的 Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. -- Coleridge.
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) (Chemistry) Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure. Opposite of acyclic.
Note: Used most commonly in respect to organic compounds.
Note: [Narrower terms: bicyclic; heterocyclic; homocyclic, isocyclic].
Syn: closed-chain, closed-ring.
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) Recurring in cycles[2]; having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic. Opposite of noncyclic.
Note: [Narrower terms: alternate(prenominal), alternating(prenominal); alternate(prenominal), every other(prenominal), every second(prenominal); alternating(prenominal), oscillating(prenominal); biyearly; circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity); circular; daily, diurnal; fortnightly, biweekly; hourly; midweek, midweekly; seasonal; semestral, semestrial; semiannual, biannual, biyearly; semiweekly, biweekly; weekly; annual, yearly; biennial; bimonthly, bimestrial; half-hourly; half-yearly; monthly; tertian, alternate(prenominal); triennial]
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) Marked by repeated cycles[2].
Cyclic chorus, The chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.
Cyclic poets, Certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. -- Milman.
Cyclic (a.) Conforming to the Carnot cycle
Cyclic (a.) Forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl; "cyclic petals"; "cyclic flowers" [ant: acyclic].
Cyclic (a.) Of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure [ant: acyclic, open-chain].
Cyclic (a.) Recurring in cycles [syn: cyclic, cyclical] [ant: noncyclic, noncyclical].
Cyclic (a.) Marked by repeated cycles.
Bicyclic (a.) Relating to bicycles.
Bicyclic (a.) Having molecules consisting of two fused rings.
Bicyclic (a.) Consisting of or arranged in two cycles.
Bicyclic (a.) Containing two usually fused rings in the structure of the molecule.
Bicycling (n.) The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.
Bicycling (n.) Riding a bicycle.
Bicyclism (n.) The art of riding a bicycle.
Bicyclist (n.) 騎腳踏車的人 A bicycler.
Bicyclist (n.) A person who rides a bicycle [syn: cyclist, bicyclist, bicycler, wheeler].
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.) 命令，吩咐 [O3]；祝；向……表示 [O1] 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.
Neither bid him God speed. -- 2. John 10.
He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. -- Granrille.
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.) [C] 出價；喊價；投標[（+for）]；出價（或投標）數目 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. i.) 命令，吩咐；喊價，出價；投標 [（+for）] To pray.
Bid (v. i.) 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 (n.) 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.
Bide (v. t.) To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. -- Shak.
Bide (v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.
Bided (imp. & p. p.) of Bide.
Biding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bide.
Bide (v. i.) To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. -- Milton.
Bide (v. i.) To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be. -- Shak.
Bide (v.) Dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" [syn: bide, abide, stay].
Bident (n.) An instrument or weapon with two prongs.
Bidental (a.) Having two teeth. -- Swift.
Bidentate (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.
Bidentate (a.) Having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed.
Bidet (n.) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. -- B. Jonson.
Bidet (n.) A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.
Bidet (n.) A basin for washing genitals and anal area.
Bidigitate (a.) Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.
Biding (n.) Residence; habitation. -- Rowe.
Beild (n.) A place of shelter; protection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.]
The random beild o' clod or stane. -- Burns.
Bield (n.) A shelter. Same as Beild. [Scot.]
Bield (v. t.) To shelter. [Scot.]
Biennial (a.) Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
Biennial (a.) (Bot.) 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.) (Bot.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
Biennial (a.) Having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often
grown as annuals" [syn: biennial, two-year] [ant: annual, one-year, perennial].
Biennial (a.) Occurring every second year; "they met at biennial conventions" [syn: biennial, biyearly].
Biennial (n.) (Botany) A plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season.
Biennial (a.) 兩年一次的 Happening once every two years.
Biennial (n.) [ C ] （第二年開花的）兩年生植物 A plant that lives for two years, producing seeds and flowers in its second year.
Compare: Annual; Biannual; Perennial
Biennially (adv.) Once in two years.
Biennially (adv.) Every two years; "this festival takes places biennially" [syn: biennially, biyearly].
Bier (n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
Bier (n.) (Weaving) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
Bier (n.) A coffin along with its stand; "we followed the bier to the graveyard."
Bier (n.) A stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial.
Bier, () The frame on which dead bodies were conveyed to the grave (Luke 7:14).
Bierbalk (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] -- Homilies. Biestings
Biestings (n. pl.) Alt. of Beestings.
Beestings (n. pl.) The first milk given by a cow after calving. --B. Jonson.
The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. -- Newton. (1574).
Bifacial (a.) Having the opposite surfaces alike.
Bifacial (a.) Having two faces or fronts; "the Roman Janus is bifacial" [syn: biface, bifacial].
Bifarious (a.) Twofold; arranged in two rows.
Bifarious (a.) (Bot.) 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.
Note: [Sometimes called beaufin; but properly beefin (it is said), from its resemblance to raw beef.] -- Wright.
Biffin (n.) A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple. --Dickens.
Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
Bifid (a.) Divided into two lobes; "a bifid petal."
Bifidate (a.) See Bifid.
Bifilar (a.) Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
Bifilar micrometer (often called a bifilar), An instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar micrometer.
Bifilar (a.) Having or using two filaments; "a bifilar suspension of a waving part of an instrument."
Biflabellate (a.) (Zool.) Flabellate on both sides.
Biflagellate (a.) Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.
Biflagellate (a.) Having two flagella; "a biflagellate zoospore."
Biflorate (a.) Alt. of Biflorous.
Biflorous (a.) (Bot.) Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.
Bifold (a.) Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc. -- Shak.
Bifoliate (a.) (Bot.) Having two leaves; two-leaved.
Bifoliate (a.) Having two leaves.
Bifoliolate (a.) (Bot.) Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.
Biforate (a.) (Bot.) Having two perforations.
Biforine (n.) (Bot.) 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. -- Croxall.
Biform (a.) Having or combining two forms; "a biform crystal"; "the biform body of a mermaid."
Biformed (a.) Having two forms. -- Johnson.
Biformity (n.) A double form.
Biforn (prep. & adv.) Before. [Obs.]
Biforous (a.) See Biforate.
Bifronted (a.) Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." -- Massinger. Bifurcate