Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 43
Bilimbi (n.) Alt. of Bilimbing.
Bilimbi (n.) (Variants: or Bilimbing) (pl. - s) An East Indian everygreen tree (Averrhoa bilimbi) resembling the carambola.
Bilimbi (n.) (Variants: or Bilimbing) (pl. - s) The very acis fruit of the bilimbi that is used for preserve or pickles. -- compare: Carambola.
Bilimbing (n.) 三斂（學名：Averrhoa bilimbi）為酢漿草科陽桃屬的植物。The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]
Biliment (n.) A woman's ornament; habiliment.
Compare: Habiliment
Habiliment (n.) [Archaic] (Usually Habiliments) （常用複數）服裝；裝飾；裝備 Clothing.
Bilin (n.) A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.
Bilinear (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.
Bilingual (a.) （能說）兩種語言的；雙語的 Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. -- Bi*lin"gual*ly, adv.
Bilingual (a.) Using or knowing two languages; "bilingual education".
Bilingual (n.) 通兩種語言的人 A person who speaks two languages fluently [syn: bilingual, bilingualist].
Bilingualism (n.) 習用兩種語言；能用兩種語言 Quality of being bilingual.
The bilingualism of King's English. -- Earle.
Bilingualism (n.) The ability to speak two languages colloquially.
Bilinguar (a.) See Bilingual.
Bilinguist (n.) 通兩種語言的人 One versed in two languages.
Bilinguous (a.) Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. [Obs.]
Bilinguous (a.) (Not comparable) (Obsolete, rare) Speaking or presented in two languages; bilingual.
Bilious (a.) 膽汁的；患膽或肝病的；因膽或肝病引起的；壞脾氣的 Of or pertaining to the bile.
Bilious (a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.
Bilious (a.) Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob." -- Macaulay.
Bilious temperament. See Temperament.
Bilious (a.) Relating to or containing bile [syn: bilious, biliary].
Bilious (a.) Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress [syn: bilious, liverish, livery].
Bilious (a.) Irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish].
Bilious (a.) 患膽病的；膽汁分泌過多的 Relating to an illness, caused by too much bile, that can cause vomiting.
// She suffered from bilious attacks.
Bilious (a.) (Formal) 易怒的，暴躁的 If someone is bilious, they are always in a bad mood.
// A bilious old man.
Bilious (a.) 令人十分不快的，使人厭惡的 Extremely unpleasant.
// His shirt was a bilious shade of green.
Biliousness (n.) The state of being bilious.
Biliprasin (n.) A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.
Bilirubin (n.) A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.
Biliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb.
Biliteral (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters.
Biliteralism (n.) The property or state of being biliteral.
Biliverdin (n.) A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.
Bilked (imp. & p. p.) of Bilk.
Bilking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bilk.
Bilk (v. t.) 欺騙；逃債，賴帳；躲避，避開 To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. -- Thackeray.
Bilk (n.) 賴帳；詐騙 A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Bilk (n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax. -- Hudibras.
Bilk (n.) Nonsense; vain words. -- B. Jonson.
Bilk (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person. -- Marryat.
Bilk (v.) Cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money.
Bilk (v.) Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk].
Bilk (v.) Evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors".
Bilk (v.) Escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" [syn: elude, evade, bilk].
Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
Billed (imp. & p. p.) of Bill.
Billing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bill.
Bill (v. i.) To strike; to peck.
Bill (v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern
Bill (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
Bill (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
Bill (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.
Bill (n.) A pickax, or mattock.
Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
Bill (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
Bill (n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
Bill (n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.
Bill (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
Bill (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
Bill (n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
Bill (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
Bill (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
Bill (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
Billage (n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge.
Billard (n.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.
Billbeetle (n.) Alt. of Billbug.
Billbug (n.) A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.
Billboard (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.
Billboard (n.) A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
Bill book () A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.
Bill broker () One who negotiates the discount of bills.
Billed (a.) Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.
Billet (n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter.
Billet (n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
Billeted (imp. & p. p.) of Billet.
Billeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Billet.
Billet (v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
Billet (n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
Billet (n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
Billet (n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
Billet (n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
Billet (n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
Billet (n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
Billets-doux (n. pl. ) of Billet-doux.
Billet-doux (n.) A love letter or note.
Billethead (n.) A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.
Billfish (n.) A name applied to several distinct fishes.
Billfish (n.) The garfish ({Tylosurus longirostris, or Belone longirostris) and allied species.
Billfish (n.) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast ({Scomberesox saurus).
Billfish (n.) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
Billfish (n.) The American fresh-water garpike ({Lepidosteus osseus).
Billfish (n.) Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus].
Billfish (n.) Giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw.
Billfish (n.) Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn: saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus].
Billfish (n.) Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish].
Billhead (n.) A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.
Bill holder () A person who holds a bill or acceptance.
Bill holder () A device by means of which bills, etc., are held.
Billhook (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
Billiard (a.) 撞球（用）的 Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball." -- B. Jonson.
Billiard (a.) Of or relating to billiards; "a billiard ball"; "a billiard cue"; "a billiard table".
Billiards (n.) 撞球，彈子戲 [J] A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
Billing (a. & n.) Caressing; kissing.
Billingsgate (n.) A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
Billingsgate (n.) Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
Compare: Milliard
Milliard (n.) 【英】十億 A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See Billion.
Milliard (n.) A billion; "in England they call one thousand million a milliard".
Billion (n.) （美國，法國）十億；（英國，德國）萬億；大量，無數 [P] [（+of）] According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.
Billion (a.) Denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States.
Billion (a.) Denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain.
Billion (n.) The number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen [syn: billion, one million million, 1000000000000].
Billion (n.) A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there were millions of flies" [syn: million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillion].
Billion (n.) The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros [syn: billion, one thousand million, 1000000000].
Billmen (n. pl. ) of Billman.
Billman (n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.
Billman (n. pl. billmen) One using or armed with a bill.
Billman (n. pl. billmen) One that posts advertising bills: Billposter.
Compare: Billposter
Billposter (n.) 貼廣告者 A person who posts advertisements, notices, or posters.
Billon (n.) （鑄幣用的含錫或銅或其他金屬較多的）金或銀；（作紀念章用的）含銅較高的銀 An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.
Billot (n.) Bullion in the bar or mass.
Billow (n.) [C] 巨浪，波濤；巨浪（或波濤）似的東西（如大火、煙、霧等）；【書】大海 [P1] A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. -- Cowper.
Billow (n.) A great wave or flood of anything. -- Milton.
Billow (v. i.) （巨浪）翻騰；波浪似地起伏，滾滾向前；鼓起 [（+out）] To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." -- Prior.
Billow (n.) A large sea wave [syn: billow, surge].
Billow (v.) Rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky" [syn: billow, wallow].
Billow (v.) Move with great difficulty; "The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed".
Billow (v.) Rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward" [syn: billow, surge, heave].
Billow (v.) Become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [syn: balloon, inflate, billow].
Billow (n.) A large sea wave [syn: {billow}, {surge}].
Billow (v.) (v. t.) 使翻騰 Rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky" [syn: {billow}, {wallow}].
Billow (v.) Move with great difficulty; "The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed".
Billow (v.) Rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward" [syn: {billow}, {surge}, {heave}].
Billow (v.) Become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [syn: {balloon}, {inflate}, {billow}].
Billowy (a.) 巨浪的；巨浪似的；起巨浪的波濤洶湧的，波浪滔天的。 A rough, billowy sea 翻江倒海卷巨浪 Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. -- Thomson.
Billowy (a.) Characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves" [syn: billowy, billowing (a), surging].
Billposter (n.) Alt. of Billsticker
Billsticker (n.) 張貼廣告者 One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.
Compare: Handbill
Handbill (n.) 傳單；招貼，廣告單 [C] A small printed sheet to be distributed (as for advertising) by hand.
Billy (n.) 棍棒；【美】警棍 A club; esp., a policeman's club. Also called billy club.
Billy (n.) (Wool Manuf.) A slubbing or roving machine.
Billy (n.) A short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club].
Billy (n.) Male goat [syn: billy, billy goat, he-goat].
Billyboy (n.) 【英】平底貨船 A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]