Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 46
Birdcall (n.) An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall.
Birdcall (n.) The characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age" [syn: birdcall, call, birdsong, song].
Birdcall (n.) A device for imitating a birdcall.
Birdcatcher (n.) One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
Birdcatching (n.) The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.
Bird cherry () (Bot.) A shrub ({Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.
Bird cherry (n.) Any of several small-fruited cherry trees frequented or fed on by birds [syn: bird cherry, bird cherry tree].
Birder (n.) A birdcatcher.
Birder (n.) A birdwatcher.
Birder (n.) A person who identifies and studies birds in their natural habitats [syn: bird watcher, birder].
Bird-eyed (a.) Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.
Bird fancier () One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.
Bird fancier () One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.
Bird fancier (n.) A person with a strong interest in birds.
Birdie (n.) A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name. -- Tennyson.
Birdie (n.) (Golf) A score of one stroke under par on a hole.
Birdie (n.) Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle].
Birdie (v.) Shoot in one stroke under par.
Birdikin (n.) A young bird. -- Thackeray.
Birding (n.) Birdcatching or fowling. -- Shak.
Birding piece, A fowling piece. -- Shak.
Birdlet (n.) A little bird; a nestling.
Birdlike (a.) Resembling a bird.
Birdlime (n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. -- Dryden.
Note: Birdlime is also made from mistletoe, elder, etc.
Birdlime (v. t.) To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with. -- Coodwin.
Birdlime (n.) A sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds [syn: birdlime, lime]
Birdlime (v.) Spread birdlime on branches to catch birds [syn: birdlime, lime].
Birdling (n.) A little bird; a nestling.
Birdman (n.) A fowler or birdcatcher.
Birdman (n.) An aviator; airman. [Colloq.]
Bird of paradise () (Zool.) The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.
Great emerald ({Paradisea+apoda"> Note: The Great emerald ({Paradisea apoda) and the Lesser emerald ({Paradisea minor}) furnish many of the plumes used as ornaments by ladies; the Red bird of paradise is Paradisea rubra or Paradisea sanguinea; the Golden bird of paradise is Parotia aurea or Parotia sexsetacea; the King bird of paradise is Cincinnurus regius. The name is also applied to the longer-billed birds of another related group ({Epimachin[ae]) from the same region. The Twelve-wired bird of paradise ({Seleucides alba"> Twelve-wired bird of paradise ({Seleucides alba) is one of these. See Paradise bird, and Note under Apod.
Bird of paradise (n.) A tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn: bird of paradise, poinciana, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii].
Bird of paradise (n.) Ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird [syn: bird of paradise, Strelitzia reginae].
Bird of paradise (n.) Any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area.
Bird pepper () A species of capsicum ({Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.
Bird pepper (n.) Plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers [syn: bird pepper, Capsicum frutescens baccatum, Capsicum baccatum].
Bird's-beak (n.) (Arch.) A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.
Birdseed (n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
Birdseed (n.) Food given to birds; usually mixed seeds [syn: bird feed, bird food, birdseed].
Bird's-eye (a.) Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a bird's-eye view.
Bird's-eye (a.) Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.
Bird's-eye (n.) (Bot.) A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.
Birdseye, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population
(2000): 465
Housing Units (2000): 213
Land area (2000): 0.641544 sq. miles (1.661592 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.641544 sq. miles (1.661592 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05374
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 38.315781 N, 86.695283 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47513
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Birdseye, IN
Birdseye
Bird's-eye maple () See under Maple.
Bird's-foot (n.) A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.
Bird's-mouth (n.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States.
Bird's nest (n.) Alt. of Bird's-nest.
Bird's-nest (n.) The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.
Bird's-nest (n.) The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.
Bird's-nest (n.) An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.)
Bird's-nesting (n.) Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.
Bird's-tongue (n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).
Bird-witted (a.) Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.
Birectangular (a.) Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.
Bireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
Biretta (n.) Same as Berretta.
Birgander (n.) See Bergander.
Birk (n.) A birch tree.
Birk (n.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).
Birken (v. t.) To whip with a birch or rod.
Birken (a.) Birchen; as, birken groves.
Birkie (n.) A lively or mettlesome fellow.
Birl (v. t. & i.) To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.
Birl (v. t. & i.) To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.
Birlaw (n.) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.
Birmingham Town Hall (n.) 伯明罕市政廳（英語：Birmingham Town Hall）是位於英國英格蘭城市伯明罕維多利亞廣場的一座音樂廳，竣工於1834年，是英國的一級保護建築。伯明罕市政廳是英國維多利亞時代的代表性建築，外觀為羅馬式建築 [1]。
Birmingham Town Hall is a Grade I listed concert hall and venue for popular assemblies opened in 1834 and situated in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. [1]
The first of the monumental town halls that would come to characterise the cities of Victorian England, [2] Birmingham Town Hall was also the first significant work of the 19th-century revival of Roman architecture, [3] a style chosen here in the context of the highly charged radicalism of 1830s Birmingham for its republican associations. [3] The design was based on the proportions of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum. [4] "Perfect and aloof" on a tall, rusticated podium, it marked an entirely new concept in English architecture. [4]
It was created as a home for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival established in 1784, the purpose of which was to raise funds for the General Hospital, after St Philip's Church (later to become a Cathedral) became too small to hold the festival, and for public meetings.
The hall underwent a major renovation between 2002 and 2008. It now hosts a diverse programme of events including jazz, world, folk, rock, pop and classical concerts, organ recitals, spoken word, dance, family, educational and community performances, as well as annual general meetings, product launches, conferences, dinners, fashion shows, graduation ceremonies and broadcasts.
Birostrate (a.) Alt. of Birostrated.
Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.
Birred (imp. & p. p.) of Birr.
Birring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Birr.
Birr (v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
Birr (n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.
Birr (n.) A rush or impetus; force.
Birrus (n.) A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.
Birse (n.) A bristle or bristles.
Birt (n.) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
Birth (n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
Birth (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. -- Prescott.
Birth (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. -- Dryden.
Birth (n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. "At her next birth." -- Milton.
Birth (n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
Poets are far rarer births than kings. -- B. Jonson.
Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. -- Addison.
Birth (n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
New birth (Theol.), Regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life.
Syn: Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family.
Birth (n.) See Berth. [Obs.] -- De Foe.
Birth (n.) The time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age" [ant: death, demise, dying].
Birth (n.) The event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency, nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry].
Birth (n.) The process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing].
Birth (n.) The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn: parentage, birth].
Birth (n.) A baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births".
Birth (v.) Cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!" [syn: give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have].
Birth, () As soon as a child was born it was washed, and rubbed with salt (Ezek. 16:4), and then swathed with bandages (Job 38:9; Luke 2:7, 12). A Hebrew mother remained forty days in seclusion after the birth of a son, and after the birth of a daughter double that number of days. At the close of that period she entered into the tabernacle or temple and offered up a sacrifice of purification (Lev. 12:1-8; Luke 2:22). A son was circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, being thereby consecrated to God (Gen. 17:10-12; comp. Rom. 4:11). Seasons of misfortune are likened to the pains of a woman in travail, and seasons of prosperity to the joy that succeeds child-birth (Isa. 13:8; Jer. 4:31; John 16:21, 22). The natural birth is referred to as the emblem of the new birth (John 3:3-8; Gal. 6:15; Titus 3:5, etc.).
BIRTH. () The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete. 5 C. & P. 329; S. C. 24 E. C. L. R. 344 6 C. & P. 349; S. C. 25 E. C. L. R. 433.
BIRTH. () But if a child be killed with design and maliciously after it has wholly come forth from the body of the mother, although still connected with her by means of the umbilical cord, it seems that such killing will be murder. 9 C. & P. 25 S . C. 38 E. C. L. R. 21; 7 C. & P. 814. Vide articles Breath; Dead Born; Gestation; Life; and 1 Beck' s Med. Jur. 478, et seq.; 1 Chit. Med. Jur. 438; 7 C. & P. 814; 1 Carr. & Marsh. 650; S. C. 41 E. C. L. R. 352; 9 C. & P. 25.
BIRTH. () It seems that unless the child be born alive, it is not properly a birth, but a carriage. 1 Chit. Pr. 35, note z. But see Russ. & Ry. C. C. 336.
BIRTH, (n.) The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
Birthday (n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The birthday of invention. -- Cowper.
Birthday (n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
This is my birthday; as this very day Was Cassius born. -- Shak.
Birthday (a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
Birthday (n.) An anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it).
Birthday (n.) The date on which a person was born [syn: birthday, natal day].
Birth-day, () The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebrated in the land of Egypt (Gen. 40:20). There is no recorded instance in Scripture of the celebration of birth-days among the Jews. On the occasion of Herod's birth-day John the Baptist was beheaded (Matt. 14:6).
Birthday (n.) [ C ] (A1) 生日 The day that is exactly a year or number of years after a person was born.
// Happy birthday, Flavio!
// Are you going to Ellen's birthday party next week?
// It's her 21st birthday.
Idiom: In your birthday suit
In your birthday suit (Humorous) 赤身裸體 Not wearing any clothes.
Birthdom (n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance. [R.] -- Shak.
Birthing (n.) (Naut.) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. -- Bailey.
Birthing (n.) the act or process of giving birth.
Birthing (n.) The process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing].
Birthless (a.) Of mean extraction. [R.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Birthmark (n.) Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.
Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. -- Sir T. North.
Birthmark (n.) A blemish on the skin that is formed before birth [syn: birthmark, nevus].
Birthnight (n.) The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.
The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. -- Milton.
Birthplace (n.) The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. "The birthplace of valor." -- Burns. birth rate,
Birthplace (n.) The place where someone was born [syn: birthplace, place of birth].
Birthplace (n.) Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" [syn: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience].
Birthright (n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.
Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. -- Heb. xii. 16.
Birthright (n.) A right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child".
Birthright (n.) An inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) [syn: birthright, patrimony].
Birthright (n.) Personal characteristics that are inherited at birth.
Birthroot (n.) (Bot.) An herbaceous plant ({Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
Birthroot (n.) Trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth [syn: purple trillium, red trillium, birthroot, Trillium erectum].
Birthwort (n.) A genus of herbs and shrubs ({Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.
Birthwort (n.) Creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America [syn: birthwort, Aristolochia clematitis].
Bis (adv.) Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
Bis- (pref.) A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.
BIS, () Business Information System.
Bisa antelope () (Zool.) See Oryx.
Bisaccate (a.) (Bot.) Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.
Biscayan (a.) Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain.
Biscayan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Biscay.
Biscotin (n.) A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.
Biscuit (n.) 【美】小麵包；軟餅 [C]；【英】餅乾 [C]；淡褐色；灰黃色 [U]；陶瓷素燒坯 [U] A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. -- Gibbon.
Biscuit (n.) A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
Biscuit (n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
Biscuit (n.) (Sculp.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
{Meat biscuit}, An alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.
Biscuit (n.) Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda.
Biscuit (n.) Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) [syn: {cookie}, {cooky}, {biscuit}].
Biscuit (n.) [ C ] (Flat cake) (A1) (UK) (US Cookie) 餅乾；薄薄一片的甜餅 A small, flat cake that is dry and usually sweet.
// Chocolate/ ginger biscuits.
// A packet of biscuits.
// We had tea and biscuits at half past three.
Biscuit (n.) [ C ] (Bread) (US) 鬆餅 A type of bread usually baked in small, round pieces.
// Baking-powder biscuits.
// Biscuits and gravy.
Idiom: That (really) takes the biscuit (UK) (US That takes the cake)
That (really) takes the biscuit (UK) (US That takes the cake) (Informal) 極其討厭；十分驚人 You say that something or someone (really) takes the biscuit when it or they have done something that you find extremely annoying or surprising.
// And you say she's opening your letters now? Oh, that really takes the biscuit!
Biscutate (a.) (Bot.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.
Compare: Bice
Bice, Bise (n.) (Paint.) A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.
Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. -- Cooley. -- Brande & C.
Bise (n.) [F.] A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.
Bise (n.) (Paint.) See Bice.
Bise (n.) A dry cold north wind in southeastern France [syn: bise, bize].
Bisected (imp. & p. p.) of Bisect.
Bisecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bisect.
Bisect (v. t.) To cut or divide into two parts.
Bisect (v. t.) (Geom.) To divide into two equal parts.
Bisection (n.) Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
Bisection (n.) Dividing into two equal parts.
Bisector (n.) One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.
Bisectrix (n.) The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
Bisegment (n.) One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
Biseptate (a.) With two partitions or septa. -- Gray.
Biserial (a.) Alt. of Biseriate.
Biseriate (a.) In two rows or series.