Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 43
Bilimbi, Bilimbing (n.) [Malay.] The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalide[ae] 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.]
Bilimbi (n.) East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit [syn: bilimbi, Averrhoa bilimbi].
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.) [Malay.] 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.) (Math.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.
Bilinear (a.) Linear with respect to each of two variables or positions.
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.
Compare: Bilingual
Bilingual (a.) 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.) A person who speaks two languages fluently [syn: bilingual, bilingualist].
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.
Biliousness (n.) Gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder.
Biliousness (n.) A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees" [syn: temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness].
Biliprasin (n.) (Physiol.) A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.
Bilirubin (n.) (Physiol.) A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.
Bilirubin (n.) An orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice [syn: bilirubin, hematoidin, haematoidin].
Biliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. -- Sir W. Jones.
Biliteral (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters.
Biliteralism (n.) The property or state of being biliteral.
Biliverdin (n.) (Physiol.) 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. -- Milton.
Bill (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
Bill (n.) (Law) 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. [Eng.]
Note: In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
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.
She put up the bill in her parlor window. -- Dickens.
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 of adventure. See under Adventure.
Bill of costs, A statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action.
Bill of credit. Within the constitution of the United States, a paper issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the State, and designed to circulate as money. No State shall "emit bills of credit." -- U. S. Const. -- Peters. -- Wharton. -- Bouvier
Bill of credit. Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money.
Bill of divorce, In the Jewish law, a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. -- Jer. iii. 8.
Bill of entry, A written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation.
Bill of exceptions. See under Exception.
Bill of exchange (Com.), A written order or request from one person or house to another, desiring the latter to pay to some person designated a certain sum of money therein generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable to order or to bearer. So also the order generally expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is drawn for value. The person who draws the bill is called the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is, before acceptance, called the drawee, -- after acceptance, the acceptor; the person to whom the money is directed to be paid is called the payee. The person making the order may himself be the payee. The bill itself is frequently called a draft. See Exchange. -- Chitty.
Bill of fare, A written or printed enumeration of the dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with prices annexed) which may be ordered at a restaurant, etc.
Bill of health, A certificate from the proper authorities as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time of her leaving port.
Bill of indictment, A written accusation lawfully presented to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence sufficient to support the accusation, they indorse it "A true bill," otherwise they write upon it "Not a true bill," or "Not found," or "Ignoramus", or "Ignored."
Bill of lading, A written account of goods shipped by any person, signed by the agent of the owner of the vessel, or by its master, acknowledging the receipt of the goods, and promising to deliver them safe at the place directed, dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods.
Bill of mortality, An official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mortality of London.
Bill of pains and penalties, A special act of a legislature which inflicts a punishment less than death upon persons supposed to be guilty of treason or felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings. -- Bouvier. -- Wharton.
Bill of parcels, An account given by the seller to the buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of each.
Bill of particulars (Law), A detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off.
Bill of rights, A summary of rights and privileges claimed by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the Lords and Commons of England to the Prince and Princess of Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several States.
Bill of sale, A formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and chattels.
Bill of sight, A form of entry at the customhouse, by which goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination.
Bill of store, A license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free. -- Wharton.
Bills payable (n. pl.), The outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issued by an individual or firm.
Bills receivable (n. pl.), The unpaid promissory notes or acceptances held by an individual or firm. -- McElrath.
A true bill, A bill of indictment sanctioned by a grand jury.
Billed (imp. & p. p.) of Bill.
Billing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bill.
Bill (v. i.) To strike; to peck. [Obs.]
Bill (v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. "As pigeons bill." -- Shak.
To bill and coo, To interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. -- Thackeray.
Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
The bittern's hollow bill was heard. -- Wordsworth.
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.
France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. -- Macaulay.
Bill (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman. -- Strype.
Bill (n.) A pickax, or mattock. [Obs.]
Bill (n.) (Naut.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
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.
Bill (n.) A statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill" [syn: bill, measure].
Bill (n.) An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe" [syn: bill, account, invoice].
Bill (n.) A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback].
Bill (n.) The entertainment offered at a public presentation
Bill (n.) An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway].
Bill (n.) A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card].
Bill (n.) A list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
Bill (n.) A long-handled saw with a curved blade; "he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree" [syn: bill, billhook].
Bill (n.) A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead" [syn: bill, peak, eyeshade, visor, vizor].
Bill (n.) Horny projecting mouth of a bird [syn: beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker].
Bill (v.) Demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights" [syn: charge, bill].
Bill (v.) Advertise especially by posters or placards; "He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso."
Bill (v.) Publicize or announce by placards [syn: placard, bill].
Billage (n. & v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge.
Compare: Bilge
Bilge (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Bilged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bilging.] (Naut.) 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.) (Naut.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
Bilge (v. t.) To cause to bulge.
Bilge (n.) The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
Bilge (n.) (Naut.) 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.
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.
Bilge (n.) 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].
Billard (n.) (Zool.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.] Billbeetle
Billbeetle (n.) Alt. of Billbug.
Billbug (n.) (Zool.) A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.
Compare: Curculio
Curculio (n.; pl. Curculios) (Zool.) One of a large group of beetles ({Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.
Billboard (n.) (Naut.) 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. -- Totten.
Billboard (n.) A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board. especially, A large board out of doors and visible to passers-by, on which the space is rented for advertising purposes; also, the advertising displayed on such a board.
Billboard (n.) Large outdoor signboard [syn: billboard, hoarding].
Bill book () (Com.) 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.
Compare: Broker
Broker (n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent.
Broker (n.) (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. -- Story.
Broker (n.) A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
Broker (n.) A dealer in secondhand goods. [Eng.]
Broker (n.) A pimp or procurer. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Bill broker, One who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange.
Curbstone broker or Street broker, An operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [U.S.]
Exchange broker, One who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money.
Insurance broker, One who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire.
Pawn broker. See Pawnbroker.
Real estate broker, One who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage.
Ship broker, One who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc.
Stock broker. See Stockbroker.
Billed (a.) Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.
Billed (a.) Having a beak or bill as specified; "a thick-billed bird"; "a long-billed cap."
Billeted (imp. & p. p.) of Billet.
Billeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Billet.
Billet (v. t.) (Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. -- W. Irving.
Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. -- W. Irving.
Billet (n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
They shall beat out my brains with billets. -- Shak.
Billet (n.) (Metal.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
Billet (n.) (Arch.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
Billet (n.) (Saddlery) A strap which enters a buckle.
Billet (n.) (Saddlery) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. -- Knight.
Billet (n.) (Her.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
Billet (n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter. "I got your melancholy billet." -- Sterne.
Billet (n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
Billet (n.) Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig. [Colloq.]
The men who cling to easy billets ashore. -- Harper's Mag.
His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle. -- Pall Mall Mag.
Billard (n.) (Zool.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.] Billbeetle
Billet (n.) A short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there" [syn: note, short letter, line, billet].
Billet (n.) Lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
Billet (n.) A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation].
Billet (v.) Provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter, billet, canton].
Billets-doux (n. pl. ) of Billet-doux.
Billet-doux (n.) 【法】情書 A love letter or note.
A lover chanting out a billet-doux. -- Spectator.
Billethead (n.) (Naut.) 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.
Compare: Saury
Saury (n.; pl. Sauries.) (Zool.) A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
Billfish (n.) (Zool.) A name applied to several distinct fishes:
Billfish (n.) (Zool.) The garfish ({Tylosurus longirostris, or Belone longirostris) and allied species.
Billfish (n.) (Zool.) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast ({Scomberesox saurus).
Billfish (n.) (Zool.) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
Billfish (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Billhook (n.) A long-handled saw with a curved blade; "he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree" [syn: bill, billhook].
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.
Billiards (n.) Any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls.
Billing (a. & n.) Caressing; kissing.
Billing (n.) Request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month" [syn: charge, billing].
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.
Billingsgate (n.) Foul-mouthed or obscene abuse [syn: scurrility, billingsgate].
Billingsgate (n.) The invective of an opponent.
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. "A billman of the guard." -- Savile.
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.
Billposter (n.) One that posts advertising bills
Billposter (n.) An advertising bill : poster.
Billposter, Billsticker (n.) One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.
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. 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.
Handbill (n.) A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
Handbill (n.) A pruning hook. [Usually written hand bill.]
Handbill (n.) An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway].
Handbill (n.) A printed or written notice put up on walls, &c., in order to inform those concerned of something to be done.
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.]