Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 42
Bifurcate (a.) Alt. of Bifurcated.
Bifurcated (a.) 分叉( 的 ) Two-pronged; forked.
Bifurcate (v. i.) 分叉 To divide into two branches.
Bifurcate (v.) [ I ] (Formal) (Of roads, rivers, branches, etc.)（道路、河流、樹枝） 分叉，分支 To divide into two parts.
// A sample of water was taken from the point where the river bifurcates.
Bifurcation (n.) 分叉，分歧，分歧點 A forking, or division into two branches.
Bifurcation (n.) (Formal) [ U ] 分叉，分歧，分歧點 The fact that something is divided into two parts or the act of dividing something into two parts.
Bifurcation (n.) [ C ] Either of the two parts into which something divides.
Bifurcous (a.) See Bifurcate, a.
Big (a.) 大的，巨大的；重要的，重大的 Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. "He's too big to go in there." -- Shak.
Big (a.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.
[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. -- Addison.
Big (a.) 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.
God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. -- Jer. Taylor.
Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as, big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced.
To talk big, To talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
I talked big to them at first. -- De Foe.
Syn: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross. Big
Big (v. t.) Alt. of Bigg
Bigg (v. t.) To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Big (n.) Alt. of Bigg
Bigg (n.) (Bot.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
"Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." -- New English Dict. Big
Big (adv.) Extremely well; "his performance went over big".
Big (adv.) In a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large].
Big (adv.) On a grand scale; "think big" [ant: small].
Big (adv.) In a major way; "the play failed big at the box office".
Big (a.) Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" [syn: large, big] [ant: little, small].
Big (a.) Significant; "graduation was a big day in his life".
Big (a.) Very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: bad, big].
Big (a.) Loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds".
Big (a.) Conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen" [syn: big, large, prominent].
Big (a.) Prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" [syn: big(a), heavy(a)].
Big (a.) Exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising].
Big (a.) Feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: big, swelled, vainglorious].
Big (a.) (Of animals) Fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" [syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup].
Big (a.) Marked by intense physical force; "a big wind".
Big (a.) Generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" [syn: big, large, magnanimous].
Big (a.) Given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded].
Big (a.) In an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)].
BIG () Bionet Intelligent Gateway (BioData)
Biga (n.) (Antiq.) A two-horse chariot.
Bigam (n.) A bigamist. [Obs.]
Bigamist (n.) One who is guilty of bigamy. -- Ayliffe.
Bigamous (a.) Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.
Bigamous (a.) Of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first.
Bigamy (n.) The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. -- Wharton.
Note: It is not strictly correct to call this offense bigamy: it more properly denominated polygamy, i. e., having a plurality of wives or husbands at once, and in several statutes in the United States the offense is classed under the head of polygamy. In the canon law bigamy was the marrying of two virgins successively, or one after the death of the other, or once marrying a widow. This disqualified a man for orders, and for holding ecclesiastical offices.
Shakespeare uses the word in the latter sense. -- Blackstone. -- Bouvier.
Base declension and loathed bigamy. -- Shak.
Bigamy (n.) Having two spouses at the same time.
Bigamy (n.) The offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred.
Bigamy (), Crim. law, domestic relations. The willful contracting of a second marriage when the contracting party knows that the first is still subsisting; or it is the state of a man who has two wives, or of a woman who has two husbands living at the same time. When the man has more than two wives, or the woman more than two husbands living at the same time, then the party is said to have committed polygamy, but the name of bigamy is more frequently given to this offence in legal proceedings. 1 Russ. on Cr. 187.
Bigamy () In England this crime is punishable by the stat. 1 Jac. 1, c. 11, which makes the offence felony but it exempts from punishment the party whose husband or wife shall continue to remain absent for seven years before the second marriage, without being heard from, and persons who shall have been legally divorced. The statutory provisions in the U. S. against bigamy or polygamy, are in general similar to, and copied from the statute of 1 Jac. 1, c. 11, excepting as to the punishment. The several exceptions to this statute are also nearly the same in the American statutes, but the punishment of the offence is different in many of the states. 2 Kent, Com. 69; vide Bac. Ab. h. t.; Com. Dig. Justices, Sec. 5; Merlin, Repert. mot Bigamie; Code, lib. 9, tit. 9, 1. 18; and lib. 5, tit. 5, 1. 2.
Bigamy () According to the canonists, bigamy is three-fold, viz.: (vera, interpretative, et similitudinaria,) real, interpretative and similitudinary. The first consisted in marrying two wives successively, (virgins they may be,) or in once marrying a widow; the second consisted, not in a repeated marriage, but in marrying (v. g. meretricem vel ab alio corruptam) a harlot; the third arose from two marriages indeed, but the one metaphorical or spiritual, the other carnal. This last was confined to persons initiated in sacred orders, or under the vow Of continence.
Deferriere's Tract, Juris Canon. tit. xxi. See also Bac. Abr. h. t.; 6
Decret, 1. 12. Also Marriage.
Bigamy (n.) A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
Bigarreau (n.) Alt. of Bigaroon.
Bigaroon (n.) (Bot.) The large white-heart cherry.
Big-bellied (a.) Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.
Big-bellied (a.) Having a prominent belly [syn: big-bellied, great bellied].
Bigeminate (a.) (Bot.) 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.) (Zool.) Including two tribes or races of men.
Bigeye (n.) (Zool.) A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.
Bigeye (n.) Red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales.
Bigg (n. & v.) See Big, n. & v.
Biggen (v. t. & i.) To make or become big; to enlarge. [Obs. or Dial.] -- Steele.
Bigger (a.) compar. of Big.
Biggest (a.) superl. of Big.
Biggin (n.) A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.
An old woman's biggin for a nightcap. -- Massinger.
Biggin (n.) A child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin.
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
Biggin (v. t.) Alt. of Bigging.
Bigging (v. t.) A building. [Obs.] Biggon.
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 (n.) 海灣，繩圈 A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
Bight (n.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
Bight (n.) 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.
Bight (v. t.) 結成繩圈 Fasten with a bight.
Biglandular (a.) 二腺體的 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.) 偏執的人；頑固者；心地狹窄的人 A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [Obs.]
Compare: Hypocrite
Hypocrite (n.) 偽善者，偽君子 [C] A hypocritical person.
‘The story tells of respectable Ben who turns out to be a cheat and a hypocrite.’
Compare: Hypocritical
Hypocritical (a.) 偽善的，虛偽的 Behaving in a way that suggests one has higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.
‘We don't go to church and we thought it would be hypocritical to have him christened.’
‘It would be entirely hypocritical of me to say I regret it because I don't.’
Compae: Superstitious
Superstitious (a.) 迷信的；因迷信而形成的 Having or showing a belief in superstitions.
‘Many superstitious beliefs and practices are connected with sneezing.’
Compare: Superstition
Superstition (n.) [Mass noun] [C] [U] 迷信；迷信行為；盲目崇拜；盲目恐懼 Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural.
‘He dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition.’
Superstition (n.) [Count noun ] A widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck, or a practice based on such a belief.
‘She touched her locket for luck, a superstition she'd had since childhood.’
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.
To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. -- Macaulay.
Bigot (n.) A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own.
Bigot (n.) [Common] A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see {religious issues}). Usually found with a specifier; thus, Cray bigot, ITS bigot, APL bigot, VMS bigot, Berkeley bigot. Real bigots can be distinguished from mere partisans or zealots by the fact that they refuse to learn alternatives even when the march of time and/ or technology is threatening to obsolete the favored tool. It is truly said ?You can tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much.? Compare {weenie}, {Amiga Persecution Complex}.
Bigot (n.) A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see religious issues). Usually found with a specifier; thus, "Cray bigot", "ITS bigot", "APL bigot", "VMS bigot", "Berkeley bigot". Real bigots can be distinguished from mere partisans or zealots by the fact that they refuse to learn alternatives even when the march of time and/ or technology is threatening to obsolete the favoured tool. It is truly said "You can tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much." Compare weenie. [{Jargon File]
Bigot (n.) One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Bigot (a.) Bigoted. [Obs.]
In a country more bigot than ours. -- Dryden.
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.) 盲從；偏執，頑固 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.
Bigotry (n.) The intolerance and prejudice of a bigot [syn: bigotry, dogmatism].
Bigwig (a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.
Big-wigged (a.) characterized by pomposity of manner.
Bihydroguret (n.) (Chem.) A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance. [Obs.]
Bijection (n.) 雙向單射；雙單射 A function is bijective or a bijection or a one-to-one correspondence if it is both injective (no two values map to the same value) and surjective (for every element of the codomain there is some element of the domain which maps to it). I.e. there is exactly one element of the domain which maps to each element of the codomain.
For a general bijection f from the set A to the set B:
f'(f(a)) = a where a is in A and f(f'(b)) = b where b is in B.
A and B could be disjoint sets.
See also injection, surjection, isomorphism, permutation.
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Bijoux (n. pl. ) of Bijou.
Bijou (n.) A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.
Bijou (n.) A small and delicately worked piece.
Bijoutry (n.) Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.
Bijugate (a.) (Bot.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets.
Bijugous (a.) (Bot.) Bijugate.
Bike (n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Bikh (n.) The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.
Bikini (n.) 比基尼環礁（英語：Bikini Atoll，亦作Pikinni Atoll），/ˈbɪkᵻˌniː/或 /bᵻˈkiːni/; 馬紹爾語: 'Pikinni', 是屬於馬紹爾群島國的一個堡礁，由23個小島環繞著一個面積達229.4平方英里（594.1 km2）的潟湖組成。美國從1946年到1958年在馬紹爾群島共進行了20多次原子彈和氫彈的爆炸。2010年7月31日被列入世界文化遺產，是該國第一個世界遺產。[1]
比基尼環礁的英文名 (Bikini) 是由德屬紐幾內亞時期德國的命名 (Bikini) 而來的。而德國命名是由當地人對其的稱呼，「Pikinni」所命名的。馬紹爾語中，Pik的意思是陸地，Ni則是椰子，因此其島名在馬紹爾語中的意思是「椰子島」[2]。
比基尼環礁被德國航海家及探險家Otto von Kotzebue發現之時，本來被命名為Eschscholtz環礁，以紀念波羅的海德國裔科學家Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz。
An atoll in the Marshall Islands; formerly used by the United States as a site for testing nuclear weapons.
Bikini (n.) （上下分開的）比基尼泳裝 A woman's very brief bathing suit [syn: bikini, two- piece].
Bikini (n.) An atoll in the Marshall Islands; formerly used by the United States as a site for testing nuclear weapons.
Bikini (n.) A woman's very brief bathing suit [syn: bikini, two-piece].
Bilabiate (a.) (Bot.) Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.
Bilabiate (a.) Having two lips; "the corolla of a snapdragon is bilabiate" [syn: bilabiate, two-lipped].
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.) (Bot.) Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers. Bilaminar
Bilaminar (a.) Alt. of Bilaminate.
Bilaminate (a.) Formed of, or having, two lamin[ae], or thin plates.
Biland (n.) A byland. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Bilander (n.) (Naut.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep? -- Dryden.
Bilateral (a.) Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
Bilateral (a.) (Biol.) 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.
Bilateral (a.) Having identical parts on each side of an axis [syn: bilateral, isobilateral, bilaterally symmetrical, bilaterally symmetric]
Bilateral (a.) Affecting or undertaken by two parties; "a bilateral agreement between the United States and Japan".
Bilateral (a.) Having two sides or parts [syn: bilateral, two-sided].
Bilaterality (n.) State of being bilateral.
Bilaterality (n.) The property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane [syn: bilaterality, bilateralism, bilateral symmetry].
Bilberries (n. pl. ) of Bilberry.
Bilberry (n.) (Bot.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. -- Shak.
Bilberry (n.) (Bot.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, Vaccinium C[ae]spitosum and Vaccinium uliginosum.
Bilberry (n.) Erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus].
Bilberry (n.) Erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries [syn: bilberry, thin-leaved bilberry, mountain blue berry, Viccinium membranaceum].
Bilberry (n.) Blue-black berries similar to American blueberries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, European blueberry].
Bilboes (n. pl. ) of Bilbo.
Bilbo (n.) A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.
Bilbo (n.) (pl.) 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.
Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. -- Shak.
Bilboquet (n.) The toy called cup and ball.
Compare: Rail
Rail (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.
Note: The common European water rail ({Rallus aquaticus) is called also bilcock, skitty coot, and brook runner. The best known American species are the clapper rail, or salt-marsh hen ({Rallus longirostris, var. crepitans); the king, or red-breasted, rail ({Rallus elegans) (called also fresh-water marshhen); the lesser clapper, or Virginia, rail ({Rallus Virginianus); and the Carolina, or sora, rail ({Porzana Carolina). See Sora.
Land rail (Zool.), The corncrake.
Bilcock (n.) (Zool.) The European water rail.
Bildstein (n.) Same as Agalmatolite.
Bile (n.) (Physiol.) 膽汁 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.) 不開心；壞脾氣 Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. -- Prescott.
Note: The ancients considered the bile to be the "humor" which caused irascibility.
Bile (n.) 癤，瘡A boil. [Obs. or Archaic]
Bile (n.) A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats [syn: {bile}, {gall}].
Bilection (n.) (Arch.)【建】凸出嵌線 That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
Bilestone (n.) [醫] 膽石 A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See {Biliary}. -- E. Darwin.
Bilestone (n.) A calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts [syn: {gallstone}, {bilestone}].
Bilge (v. i.) (Naut.) （使）船底穿洞 To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
Bilge (v. i.) （使）膨脹，凸起 To bulge.
Bilge (v. t.) (Naut.) （使）船底穿洞 To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
Bilge (v. t.) （使）膨脹，凸起 To cause to bulge.
Bilge (n.) The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
Bilge (n.) (Naut.) 船底（彎曲部） 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.) 船底汙水Bilge water.
{Bilge free} (Naut.), Stowed in such a way that the bilge is clear of everything; -- said of a cask.
{Bilge pump}, A pump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship.
{Bilge water} (Naut.), Water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive.
{Bilge ways}, The timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel.
Bilged (imp. & p. p.) of Bilge.
Bilging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bilge.
Bilge (n.) 船底，船底的污水，污垢 Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship [syn: {bilge}, {bilge water}].
Bilge (n.) Where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom.
Bilge (v.) Cause to leak; "the collision bilged the vessel".
Bilge (v.) Take in water at the bilge; "the tanker bilged" [syn: {bilge}, {take in water}].
Bilge (n.) (Talk) [ U ] (Old-fashioned slang) 無聊的話，廢話；胡說 N onsense.
// Don't talk such bilge!
Bilge ( n.) (Ship) [ C] [Usually plural ] 底艙 T he bottom inside part of a ship where dirty water collects.
// The bilges had been pumped and the ship was ready to set sail once again.
Bilgy (a.) 艙底水般的；艙底水般臭味的 Having the smell of bilge water.
Bilgy (a.) Smelling like bilge water.
Biliary (a.) (Physiol.) 膽汁的；輸送膽汁的；由於膽汁異狀的 Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
Biliary calculus (Med.), A gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.
Biliary (a.) Relating to or containing bile [syn: bilious, biliary].
Biliary (a.) Relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder.
Biliation (n.) (Physiol.) [醫] 膽汁分泌 The production and excretion of bile.
Biliferous (a.) Generating bile.
Bilifuscin (n.) (Physiol.) 膽褐素 A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.
Bilifuscin (n.) (Uncountable) (Biochemistry) A brownish-green pigment, derived from bilirubin, found in human gallstones and in old bile.